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The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a municipal-level coup d'état and a massacre that was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7]
Negro (or Nigger) Head Road is a place outside Wilmington, North Carolina [1] [2] with similar displays in other Southern towns, [3] where body parts of slaves or blacks were displayed in consequence of a purported crime.
In the 1960s and 1970s, black residents of Wilmington, North Carolina were dissatisfied with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms achieved by the American Civil Rights Movement through congressional passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965. Many struggled with poverty and lack of opportunity.
Wilmington would not elect another Black person to office until 1972. Wilmington filmmaker Christopher Everett's 2015 film "Wilmington on Fire" was the first feature-length documentary on 1898.
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The history of Wilmington's white residents is pretty well documented. To find out about the lives of Black people who lived in Wilmington 100 years ago or more, however, you have to do some digging.
The first such newspaper in North Carolina was the Journal of Freedom of Raleigh, which published its first issue on September 30, 1865. [1] The African American press in North Carolina has historically been centered on a few large cities such as Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro.
Wilmington police repeatedly violate the rights of Black people during stops, frisks and searches, claims lawsuit filed by NAACP, ACLU and others.