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Wilmington on Fire, a documentary about the Wilmington insurrection directed by Christopher Everett, was released in 2015. [173] [174] 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.
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 .
The Park Fire devastating Butte County became California’s largest wildfire in recorded history caused solely by arson, state officials said, after police arrested 42-year-old Ronnie Stout on ...
Wilmington insurrection of 1898: November 10, 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina: Waddell's Army Segregationist rioters Successful removal of local government, retaining segregationist policies. [33] Green Corn Rebellion: August 2–3, 1917 Seminole County, Oklahoma: Rebel farmers
A ruling from the high court would likely apply to all 50 states. But a ruling that would let Colorado’s decision stand, without applying more broadly to all ballots in every state, could allow ...
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 ...