He studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was admitted to the bar in 1885, but did not practice law. Within a few years, he became part owner of the Kinston Free Press and the Rocky Mount Reporter. He edited and eventually purchased a local newspaper, the Wilson Advance. He was educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute and at Trinity College (now Duke University). A native of Washington, North Carolina, Daniels moved with his mother and two siblings to Wilson, North Carolina after the father, whose Union sympathies were notorious, was shot and killed by a local sharpshooter when he attempted to leave with Federal forces evacuating Washington during the Civil War. The father of Josephus Daniels, a shipbuilder, was killed before the boy was 3. The culture of late 19th and early 20th century and the legal systems of apartheid and disenfranchisement they created have many similarities (and differences pro and con) to the euphoric aroma of modern America, and what people want to believe is "progress". Such was also the thinking of the post-Civil War era at the time by most who wanted to forget the source of the elements of the war, and return to the status quo. What I hope it provides is some insight into the minds of so-called 'post-racial' society as we like to think of ourselves today. My intent is not to copy but to educate, as this excerpt doesn't do full justice to the ugly story. I took the article from Wikipedia in its entirety. Josephus Daniels was a menace to society. God only knows what havoc he would have rendered on the emerging Civil Rights Movement which picked up in the 1930s and took off as the country entered the 1950s, but was well on its march during the 1940s, often but not always blurred by the world events of the time. As the racist devils always do, he tried to clean up his record (partially) on the eve of his death, which ironically was the year after the executive order desegregating the military was given. He led a media campaign at the turn of the 19-20th centuries (a time of high anti-black and other minority bias) that had the effect of overthrowing a legitimately-elected city government, brought back or strengthened racial segregation laws and turned back constitutional rights to Black Americans.
This person was a staunch supporter of white supremacy, to his death apparently.
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