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Wilmington on Fire, a documentary about the Wilmington insurrection directed by Christopher Everett, was released in 2015. [181] [182] David Zucchino won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (2020). The book uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries ...
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 ...
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.
With a statewide highway bond on the ballot that year, officials were pushing all sorts of project priorities
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 .
Wilmington insurrection of 1898 conspirators (10 P) Pages in category "Wilmington insurrection of 1898" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend. Law enforcement said the crowd size ahead of the protest was possibly as much as 80,000, according ...
Pages in category "Wilmington insurrection of 1898 conspirators" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.