Senate apologizes for Wilmington race riot
Looking back Wednesday to the Wilmington race riot of 1898, the state Senate expressed "profound regret that violence, intimidation and force" were used to overthrow an elected government, force people from their homes and ruin lives.
Effort to acknowledge 1898 riot heads for oblivion
A package of laws intended to correct century-old damage, caused by a white supremacist plot to drive blacks from power in Wilmington, has been all but ignored. And the movement's legislative champion, Rep. Thomas Wright, is embroiled in scandal.
House acknowledges Wilmington riots
The state House on Thursday acknowledged the Wilmington race riots of 1898.
Wilmington '98 still on agenda
NAACP to press issue in Raleigh.
Dems have say on coup and war
On 1898 apology, yes; on Iraq? Hmm.
Council hears 3 hot-topic pleas
Raleigh council doesn't toss Bush or a statue but does allow creche.
Four-pronged plan
The events in Wilmington were not just a single day of violence, but part of a four-pronged plan.
The Ghosts of 1898
On Nov. 10, 1898, heavily armed white men marched into Wilmington's black neighborhoods. They burned down the black newspaper, murdered dozens of black residents and banished many black citizens and their allies. They also changed the state's history.
Prologue: Echoes of violence
In 1971, Wilmington trembled on the edge of race war. Seventeen years after the U.S. Supreme Court had outlawed segregation, the city's schools were finally attempting to integrate.
Introduction: Events of 1898 shaped our history
On a chilly morning 108 years ago, heavily armed white men marched into the black neighborhoods of Wilmington, the state's largest city and the center of African-American political and economic success.
Chapter 1
At the close of the 19th century, Wilmington was a symbol of black hope in post-Civil War America.
Chapter 2
Despite their defeat in 1865, the devotion of former Confederates to white dominion did not burn off like mists in the midmorning sun.
Chapter 3
Charles B. Aycock, governor from 1901 to 1905, has become the central symbol of the state's progressive traditions.
Chapter 4
To achieve victory in 1898, Democrats appealed to irrational passions, using sexualized images of black men.
Chapter 5
Early in the fall of 1898, Democratic Party organizers arrived in Wilmington to press their cause.
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