The Daily News, 20 September 1900.

Wilson was never a big cigarette-producing town, but around the turn of the twentieth century Wells-Whitehead Tobacco Company’s Carolina Brights brand and, for a briefer, later moment, Edwin-Nadal Tobacco Company’s Contentnea brand were made here. While tobacco processing plants were major seasonal employers of African-American workers, especially women, higher-paying cigarette jobs were whites only.