Saturday, November 11, 2023

The Wilmington massacre of 1898: a shocking episode of racist violence | North Carolina | The Guardian

North Carolina city marks 125th anniversary of the white-supremacist attack with a week of memorial events… 

The violence in Wilmington was not unique. Historians and EJI researchers have documented at least 34 instances of mass violence during Reconstruction where scores of Black people were murdered by white mobs intent on re-establishing white supremacy and resisting Black political participation. It is a history that is not well-known but critically relevant for understanding the continuing struggle for racial justice and the many obstacles that still remain…

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