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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]
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.
The Wilmington Journal is a newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is North Carolina's oldest existing newspaper for African Americans. [1] [2] R. S. Jervay established the paper in 1927. It continued under his son Thomas C. Jervay Sr. [3]
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Toward the end of the 19th century, Wilmington was a majority-black, racially integrated, prosperous city – and the largest in North Carolina. It suffered what became known as the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 when white supremacists launched a coup that overthrew the legitimately elected local Fusionist government. [ 9 ]
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Alexander Lightfoot Manly, called "Alex", was born in 1866 in Raleigh, North Carolina. [3] Both of his parents were of mixed ancestry: his father was a freedman who, like many African Americans, possessed African ancestry and European ancestry, while his mother was a free woman of color of mixed European ancestry and African ancestry. [4]
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.