PDF-(BOOK)-Wilmington\'s Lie (WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE): The Murderous Coup of 1898

From Pulitzer Prizewinner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898 an extraordinary event unknown to most AmericansBy the 1890s Wilmington was North Carolinas largest city and a shining example of a mixedrace community It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen police officers and magistrates There were successful blackowned businesses and an African American newspaper The Record But across the stateand the Southwhite supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progenyIn 1898 in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against the supposed threat of black predators Alexander Manly the outspoken young Record editor wrote that some relationships between black men and white women were consensual His editorial ignited outrage across the South with calls to lynch ManlyBut North Carolinas white supremacist Democrats had a different strategy They were plotting to take back the state legislature in November by the ballot or bullet or both and then use the Manly editorial to trigger a race riot to overthrow Wilmingtons multiracial government Led by prominent citizens including Josephus Daniels publisher of the states largest newspaper and former Confederate Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell white supremacists rolled out a carefully orchestrated campaign that included raucous rallies racebaiting editorials and newspaper cartoons and sensational fabricated news storiesWith intimidation and violence the Democrats suppressed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes or threw them out to win control of the state legislature on November eighth Two days later more than 2000 heavily armed Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington torching the Record office terrorizing women and children and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets The rioters forced city officials to resign at gunpoint and replaced them with mob leaders Prominent blacksand sympathetic whiteswere banished Hundreds of terrified black families took refuge in surrounding swamps and forestsThis brutal insurrection is a rare instance of a violent overthrow of an elected government in the US It halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as official government policy cementing white rule for another half century It was not a race riot as the events of November 1898 came to be known but rather a racially motivated rebellion launched by white supremacistsIn Wilmingtons Lie Pulitzer Prizewinner David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts diaries letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history. 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