On this day, November 10, 1898, the Wilmington massacre of 1898 began.

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Tue Nov 10, 2020: On this day, November 10, 1898, the Wilmington massacre of 1898 began.

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On this day in 1898, after a biracial government was elected into office, mobs of armed white supremacists invaded Wilmington city hall in North Carolina, and forced everyone to resign. The mob also destroyed Black businesses and killed dozens of Black people.

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Wilmington insurrection of 1898



Mob posing by the ruins of The Daily Record

The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, was a mass riot and insurrection carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. Though the white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a race riot caused by blacks, as more facts were publicized over time it came to be seen as a coup d'état, the violent overthrow of a duly elected government, by a group of white supremacists.

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