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100 1 Zucchino, David,|eauthor.
245 10 Wilmington's lie :|bthe murderous coup of 1898 and the
rise of white supremacy /|cDavid Zucchino.
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520 By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city
and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a
bustling port city with a burgeoning African American
middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and
Populists that included black aldermen, police officers
and magistrates. There were successful black-owned
businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record.
But across the state-and the South-white supremacist
Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by
former slaves and their progeny. In 1898, in response to a
speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of
Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black
predators, Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record
editor, wrote that some relationships between black men
and white women were consensual. His editorial ignited
outrage across the South, with calls to lynch Manly. But
North Carolina's white supremacist Democrats had a
different strategy. They were plotting to take back the
state legislature in November 'by the ballot or bullet or
both,' and then use the Manly editorial to trigger a 'race
riot' to overthrow Wilmington's multi-racial government.
Led by prominent citizens including Josephus Daniels,
publisher of the state's largest newspaper, and former
Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, white
supremacists rolled out a carefully orchestrated campaign
that included raucous rallies, race-baiting editorials and
newspaper cartoons, and sensational, fabricated news
stories. With intimidation and violence, the Democrats
suppressed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes (or
threw them out), to win control of the state legislature
on November eighth. Two days later, more than 2,000
heavily armed Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington,
torching the Record office, terrorizing women and children,
and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets.
The rioters forced city officials to resign at gunpoint
and replaced them with mob leaders. Prominent blacks-and
sympathetic whites-were banished. Hundreds of terrified
black families took refuge in surrounding swamps and
forests. This brutal insurrection is a rare instance of a
violent overthrow of an elected government in the U.S. It
halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as
official government policy, cementing white rule for
another half century. It was not a 'race riot,' as the
events of November 1898 came to be known, but rather a
racially motivated rebellion launched by white
supremacists. In Wilmington's Lie, Pulitzer Prize-winner
David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts,
diaries, letters and official communications to create a
gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together
individual stories of hate and fear and brutality. This is
a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but
forgotten chapter of American history.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Wilmington Massacre, Wilmington, N.C., 1898.
650 0 White supremacy movements|zNorth Carolina|zWilmington
|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 African Americans|xCivil rights|zNorth Carolina
|zWilmington|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Electronic books.
651 0 Wilmington (N.C.)|xRace relations|xHistory|y19th century.
651 0 Wilmington (N.C.)|xPolitics and government|y19th century.
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