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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]
Like the rest of the white supremacy movement in Wilmington and North Carolina, Macrae worried that the white power in the state was waning and more economic and political power was being held by the black population of Wilmington. [10] During the insurrection at least a dozen people were killed, with some claiming even higher totals, and ...
1898 – Wilmington insurrection, November 10, Wilmington, North Carolina (race riot) 1899 – Pana riot , April 10, Coal mine labor conflict; 7 killed, 6 wounded, Pana, Illinois 1899 – Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy is a book by the American journalist and author David Zucchino.The book details the events leading up to the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, in which white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina carried out a massacre and coup d'état.
[3] As a result, Democrats swept the 1898 election, and the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 broke out the following day. In 1901 Simmons won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate. From his Senate seat, he then ran a powerful political machine, using A. D. Watts "to keep the machine oiled back home," in the words of one journalist. [4]
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]
[8] The result was the only successful coup d'état in American history, the overthrow of an elected government by force in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898. In the findings of the Wilmington Race Riot Commission, Daniels is the only name mentioned as a cause of the insurrection. [8]
Democrats in the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, which took place in the largest city, overthrew the elected, biracial government headed by a white mayor and majority white council, beginning two days after the election. Russell's efforts to suppress the white riot were unsuccessful, and mobs attacked black neighborhoods, driving so many ...