Especially chilling was the fact that the insurgency had been carefully planned — a conspiracy by powerful white Democrats.
Obama, are you listening? Zuniga, are you listening?
A mob of white supremacists armed with rifles and pistols marched on City Hall in Wilmington, N.C., on Nov. 10 and overthrew the elected local government, forcing both black and white officials to resign and running many out of town. The coup was the culmination of a race riot in which whites torched the offices of a black newspaper and killed a number of black residents. No one is sure how many African-Americans died that day, but some estimates say as many as 90 were killed.
Southern Democrats lost their grip on power in North Carolina in 1894 and plotted to wrest control from the biracial Republican Party in 1898 elections. They campaigned on a platform of white supremacy and protecting their women from black men.
Read the article – I can’t believe I am publicizing this - on the progressive far-leaning left NPR website.
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