Manassa Thomas Pope

Manassa Thomas Pope (1858 - November 13, 1934) was an American medical doctor and businessman who lived in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[1] He worked in Charlotte and co-founded Queen City Drug Company in 1892[4] and People's Benevolent Association, an insurance business.

The last remaining home from a once segregated neighborhood of middle class African Americans, it is now the M. T. Pope House Museum.

Facing abuse and discrimination from a rising tide of restrictions from an organized movement for white supremacy, he ran for city council in 1919.

The House that Dr. Pope Built: Race, Politics, Memory and the Early Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina (Thesis).