1898 Wilmington Coup (9)

by Brown, Flora Bryant. African American Civil Rights in North Carolina by Dr. Flora Bryant Brown Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Fall 2004; Revised by NC Government and Heritage Library, [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Holeman, Sarah E. Junius Davis, lawyer, was the son of George Davis, a lawyer, orator, and attorney general of the Confederate States, and Mary Adelaide Polk Davis, the daughter of General Thomas G. Polk of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Cecelski, David S. I met Kenny Davis during the recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wilmington race riot of 1898. A century ago, on Nov. 10, 1898, a white mob massacred many blacks and seized the city [...] (from Listening to History, News and Observer.)

by McKinley, Cynthia Risser, McKinley, Shepherd W. The Great Migration and North Carolina by Dr. Shepherd W. McKinley and Cynthia Risser McKinley Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Spring 2006. Tar Heel Junior [...] (from Tar Heel Junior Historian, NC Museum of History.)

by Meekins, A. Christopher. Kitchin, Claude By Christopher Meekins, NC Office of Archives and History, 2020 See also: Red Shirts; Disfranchisement; Wilmington Massacre of November 1898: Correcting the Historical Record; [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Hill, Michael, Umfleet, LeRae. Alex Manly was born near Raleigh in 1866. Family tradition maintains that his father was Charles Manly, who served as governor of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851. There is some confusion about [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by McIntyre, Pattie B. Willis Richardson, playwright, was born in Wilmington, the son of Willis Wilder and Agnes Ann Harper Richardson. After the riot of 1898, he moved with his parents from Wilmington to Washington, D.C. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Smythe, Andrea. Armond Wendell Scott, lawyer, municipal judge, and public speaker, was a native of Wilmington and the second of six sons born to Benjamin and Athalia Harris Scott. Benjamin Scott ran a livery stable [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Smythe, Andrea. Waddell, Alfred Moore by Andrea Smythe, August 2023 September 16, 1834 - March 17, 1912 1834-1870: Early Life Alfred Moore Waddell was [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Umfleet, LeRae. The Wilmington Coup of 1898 was not an act of spontaneous violence. The events of November 10, 1898, were the result of a long-range campaign strategy by Democratic Party leaders to regain political [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by . A contemporary map depicting the events of November 10, 1898 in Wilmington, N.C., the date of the coup d'état known as the Wilmington Massacre or the Wilmington Coup. The map traces the movement [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)