Manassa Thomas Pope

Biography

Manassa Thomas Pope (1858 – November 13, 1934) was an American physician, businessman, and politician. He was a prominent member of the African-American middle class in Raleigh, North Carolina and ran for mayor in 1919, at the height of the Jim Crow era. He owned a medical practice in Raleigh and was involved in the establishment of Queen City Drug Company in Charlotte, North Carolina and Mechanics and Farmers Bank in Durham, North Carolina.

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