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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 ...
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 Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina, of arson and conspiracy. Most were sentenced to 29 years in prison, and all ten served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal won their release.
This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
WWAY (channel 3) is a television station in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with ABC, CBS, and The CW Plus. Owned by Morris Multimedia , the station has studios on Magnolia Village Way in Leland , and its transmitter is located west of Winnabow in Town Creek Township .
Allison Ballard, Wilmington StarNews December 19, 2023 at 10:19 AM Rx Restaurant and Bar first opened in 2012 in the historic Hall's Drug Store building along Castle St. in Wilmington, N.C.
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]
The Wilmington campaigns were part of a Union effort to take Wilmington, North Carolina, from the Confederates. Wilmington was the last major port on the Atlantic seacoast available to the Confederacy. Fort Fisher guarded the Cape Fear River and in order to capture Wilmington, Fort Fisher had to fall. [1] [2] [3]