White Supremacist Violent Overthrow of Dem- Elected Govt, NC 1898: 'Wilmington On Fire': Amer. Coup

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- The hidden history of an American coup. Vox, 2019. - In November 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of 2,000 white men expelled black and white political leaders, destroyed the property of the city’s black residents, and killed dozens--if not hundreds--of people. How did such a turn of events change the course of the city? For decades, the story of this violence was buried, while the perpetrators were cast as heroes. Yet its impacts resonate across the state to this day. > Correction at 7:23: Cynthia's ancestors lived in Wilmington, not her descendants.

In the new Vox series Missing Chapter, Producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported & often overlooked past moments to give context to the present. She covers histories that are often left out of our textbooks.
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- "Wilmington on Fire" (2015) is a new feature-length documentary that chronicles The Wilmington Massacre of 1898. The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina.

It is considered one of the only successful examples of a violent overthrow of an existing government and left countless numbers of African-Americans dead and exiled from the city. This event was the spring board for the White Supremacy movement & Jim Crow segregation throughout the state of North Carolina & the American South. This incident has been barely mentioned & has been omitted from most history books. It was not until 2006, after the North Carolina General Assembly published a report on it, that the tragedy became known to the general public.

- Film, 2015, 89 minutes. Featured Cast: Larry Reni Thomas, Dr. Lewin Manly, Faye Chaplin, Inez Eason, Dr. Umar Johnson, William Darity Jr., LeRae Umfleet, Kent Chatfield, Queen Quet, Sonya Patrick, Daawud Muhammad... *WATCH online at the film website above, on Amazon & other venues.
http://wilmingtononfire.com/about
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- Red Shirts at a polling place in Scotland County, N.C. on Election Day, Nov. 8, 1898.

- Red Shirts, 1875–1900s, Ku Klux Klan, Allegiance Democratic Party, White supremacy, Anti Reconstruction, HQ, South Carolina, Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern U.S. were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th c. in the last years of, & after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the U.S. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when anti-Reconstruction private terror units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible & threatening to Southern Republicans, both whites & freedmen. Similar groups in the Carolinas also adopted red shirts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirts_(United_States)
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- Full Viewing, 'Wilmington On Fire' documentary (2015).
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- 'Reconstruction, America After The Civil War,' PBS (2019). Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, & revolutionary social change. The 12 years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning & makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves & free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law.

Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a 'brief moment in the sun' for African Americans, when they could advance % achieve education, exercise their right to vote, & run for & win public office.

- Chapter 1: The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating...& terrifying. African Americans had played a crucial role in saving the Union & now, as the country grappled with the terms & implications of Reconstruction, they struggled to breathe life into their hard-won freedom. The result was a 2nd American Revolution.

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1. I knew about it. It happened way before Tulsa/Black Wall Street massacre.

And was one of many instances of Black towns and inhabitants being attacked by envious whites.

Of course after all the destruction and destroyed wealth, no compensation was ever paid.

And they wonder why Black family wealth is a fraction of that of white family wealth, not to mention the vastly greater amount of wealth never paid for the stolen laber of hundreds of years of enslavement...no compensation for that vast amount either of course.

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3. The horrible Rosewood, FL massacre I knew some

of before the other atrocities during the Red Summer/Scare of the late 1910s and 1920s. Dr. Gates' Reconstruction series on PBS was extensive, illuminating many achievements and hopes followed by setbacks and tragic losses. That period has been intentionally skipped over in many public school systems, glad to see this history revived.

The financial losses to black citizens and communities are massive. I've never visited Wilmington but I'd like to, I've heard good things about it. This nation is so overdue for major economic and social reckoning and reforms.

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2. I have a connection to this story

My now ex-brother-in-law was heir to the newspaper that did all the propaganda for the "democrats" (white supremacists).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_Daniels

BTW... when Daniels was Secretary of the Navy, he banned all alcohol. The sailors were offered coffee instead... and, according to legend, started calling the coffee by a derisive name... after the man who banned alcohol... or cuppa Joe.

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4. That's some dark history in Daniels era, I know the name

but need to learn more about that violent, regressive period with Redeemers, Dixiecrats and Red Shirts that's been swept under for so long.

He maybe associated with Wilson & Thomas Dixon, Birth of A Nation, DW Griffith-what a film.