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The Wilmington, Delaware race riot of 1919 was a violent racial riot between white and black residents of Wilmington, Delaware on November 13, 1919. Shooting [ edit ]
However, for much of its history Wilmington's African American population was too small to support even one such newspaper at a time. [5] Irvine Garland Penn , who tabulated the African American newspapers in circulation in 1880 and 1890 in The Afro-American Press and Its Editors , did not list a single Delaware newspaper for either year. [ 6 ]
The lynching of George White occurred on Tuesday, June 23, 1903, in Wilmington, Delaware.White was a black farmer who was accused of the rape and murder of Helen Bishop, who was arrested and brought to the workhouse.
After the violence, Wilmington's population went from majority Black to majority white nearly overnight, and 1898 remains the only known violent overthrow of a local government in American history ...
Louis Lorenzo Redding (October 25, 1901 – September 28, 1998) was a prominent lawyer and civil rights advocate from Wilmington, Delaware.Redding, the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar, was part of the NAACP legal team that challenged school segregation in the Brown v.
Pages in category "African-American history of Delaware" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... (Wilmington, Delaware) Milton Sernett;
Peter Spencer. Peter Spencer (1782–1843) was an American freedman who in 1813 founded the Union Church of Africans in Wilmington, Delaware.The denomination is now known as the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, or A.U.M.P. Church for short. [1]
Wilmington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.