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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 ...
Residents of New York City New York Guard and Union Army troops restored order. Largest civil and racially-charged insurrection in American history. [25] Battle of Liberty Place: September 14, 1874 New Orleans, Louisiana: White League: Attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Louisiana state government ...
Wilmington insurrection of 1898 ... was formed in 1919 by the New York State Legislature to ... Haynes documented violence and inaction on the state level. Map of the ...
Wilmington is a town in northern Essex County, New York, United States located within the Adirondack Park. [3] The population was 1,253 at the 2010 census. [4] The town is named after the town of Wilmington, Vermont. Wilmington is on the county's northern border and is southwest of Plattsburgh. It is in the Whiteface region of the Adirondack Park.
In 1898, Morrison participated in the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, a violent coup d'état by a group of white supremacists. They expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed ...
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 ...
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.