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Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine Race Riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 black people and 5 white people were killed. Also occurring in 1919 were the Chicago Race Riot and Washington D.C. race riot which killed 38 and 39 people respectively, and with both having many more non-fatal injuries and ...
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 , [ 135 ] and the State Library ...
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 ...
1898 – Phoenix election riot, November 8, Greenwood County, South Carolina (race riot) 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
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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.
It's going to be a hot weekend in more ways than one, thanks to a ton of promising performances on the many stages of Wilmington. Hot music and more: 18 things to do in Wilmington this weekend ...
This story is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it contributed to the "race riots" that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Critics argue over what would be a more proper term; some favor "massacre" while a North Carolina state commission ruled that it was a coup d'etat , the only ...