Wright Malone

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No work in the index names this person by itself yet. The works below belong to Racial-terror lynchings in Orange County, the wider story it is part of.

Orange County, N.C. Road Records

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2008 · S.E. Dunaway

Historic road records provided as facsimile images and (in some cases) transcriptions. Includes road petitions, road maintenance requests, bridge records, explanations of the re-routing of roads, etc. Vol. 3 also includ…

NC Cardinal OCPL Durham

Lynchings (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Folder in the Chapel Hill History series of the Society's vertical files (box 20): newspaper clippings; Copies of newspaper articles.

CH Historical Society

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September 6, 1869 Wright Malone is abducted and lynched near Little River On the night of September 6, 1869, four mounted men took Wright Malone, a young Black farmer, from the coal kiln he was burning with his father near Little Riv… People: Wright MaloneOrange County Community Remembrance Coalition: Those We Honor

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Context: Equal Justice Initiative: Lynching in America, North Carolina Equal Justice Initiative Documented racial-terror lynchings by county, with the report behind the county’s 2022 resolution
Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 2 Orange County pages naming Wright Malone DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Wright Malone NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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Friends of the Orange County Public Library. “Wright Malone.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/people/malone-wright/. Accessed September 19, 2026.

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