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The events in Wilmington in Nov. 10, 1898 was referred to as a race riot by the North Carolina Legislature in 2000 when it set up the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission. That is the term used to this day (2018) by the State Archives of North Carolina , North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources , [ 143 ] and the State Library ...
Locals reflect on how much has changed since the 100th anniversary in 1998, and on what needs to happen for Wilmington to fully reckon with its past. Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre at 125 ...
Wilmington 1898 coup and massacre: 'Healing forward' with more work to be done A white crowd gathers at the offices of Black Wilmington newspaper The Daily Record, which the mob burned on Nov. 10 ...
Wilmington is a port city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States.With a population of 115,451 as of the 2020 census, it is the eighth-most populous city in the state. [7]
Alfred Moore Waddell (September 16, 1834 – March 17, 1912) was an American politician and white supremacist.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. representative from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and as mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina from 1898 to 1906.
A planned History Center on the Civil War and its aftermath will make a central element an immersive exhibit on the 1898 Wilmington ... coverage of the war in North Carolina. On Nov. 10, 1898, an ...
Wilmington has a significant number of events marking the 125th anniversary of 1898, from lectures and film screenings to concerts, memorials & more.
Wilmington, Port of North Carolina. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 087249778X. John L. Godwin (2000). Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way: Portrait of a Community in the Era of Civil Rights Protest. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1682-9. Alan D. Watson (2003). Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861.