Fred J. Carnage

Fred Jonathan Carnage (April 16, 1894 – March 5, 1988) was an American attorney.

Early life Fred Jonathan Carnage was born in Thomasville, Georgia, United States on April 16, 1894 to Caroline and Calvin Carnage. His father was a railway worker He received his primary and secondary education at the Allen Normal School in Thomasville. He moved to Raleigh, North Carolina the following year and was hired as an agent by the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, eventually becoming an assistant manager. He married Mary E. Coleman on December 18, 1932 in Virginia. They had one daughter together. Carnage was opposed to racial segregation in businesses, and once told a judge that he believed if an establishment advertised itself as open to the public, it could not claim to discriminate against customers on the grounds that it operated on private property. In 1947 Raleigh abolished its city commission government in favor of a new council–manager system. Carnage and another black man launched unsuccessful candidacies for seats on the new Raleigh City Council, though Carnage obtained 1,920 votes. When asked about black people's goals vis a vis integration efforts, Carnage said he thought blacks were primarily concerned with equal economic opportunity and did not support "forced integration".