Archive For November 10, 2021
“The rich White folks inflamed the poor White folks, and told them that these Black people were taking over the city.” – Historian Larry Thomas Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 Following the Phoenix Election Riot, a white insurgent group overthrew the elected biracial fusionist government, including a white mayor, of the city of Wilmington, North Carolina. They…
We have waited two hundred and fifty years for liberty, and this is what it is when it comes. O Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name! – Rev. Charles S. Morris The Rev. J. Allen Kirk gave this statement about the experience of November 10, 1898. It was a great sight to see…