Summary and Review of Wilmington's Lie The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino |
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| Author:
| John, Alex |
| ISBN: | 979-8-5363-5937-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.99 |
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SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF WILMINGTON'S LIE Do you want to get the key points of WILMINGTON'S LIE in minutes? Then this summary is for you. Wilmington, North Carolina's largest city and a great example of a mixed-race community, was a dazzling example of a mixed-race community by the 1890s. It was a thriving port city with a growing African-American middle class and a Fusionist administration that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates.
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Do you want to get the key points of WILMINGTON'S LIE in minutes? Then this summary is for you.
Wilmington, North Carolina's largest city and a great example of a mixed-race community, was a dazzling example of a mixed-race community by the 1890s.
It was a thriving port city with a growing African-American middle class and a Fusionist administration that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates.
There were successful black-owned enterprises, as well as The Record, an African-American newspaper. However, white supremacist Democrats across the state--and the South--were fighting to reverse the gains gained by former slaves and their descendants.
Alexander Manly, the outspoken young Record editor, wrote in 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the alleged threat of black predators, that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual. His column sparked uproar across the South, with some calling for Manly's lynching.
White nationalist Democrats in North Carolina, on the other hand, had a different tactic. They planned to retake the state legislature in November "by the ballot box, by gunshot, or both," and then use the Manly column to incite a "race riot" to destabilize Wilmington's multiracial administration.
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