Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy / David Zucchino.
"By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the Sout...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2020]
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Edition: | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
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Physical Description: | xxii, 426 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Book one: days of hope
- Cake and wine
- Good will of the white people
- Lying out
- Marching to the happy land
- Ye men of unmixed blood
- The avenger cometh
- Destiny of the negro
- A yaller dog
- Book two: reckoning
- The negro problem
- The incubus
- I say lynch
- A vile slander
- An excellent race
- A dark scheme
- The nation's mission
- Degenerate sons of the white race
- The great white man's rally and basket picnic
- White-capping
- Buckshot at close range
- A drunkard and a gambler
- Choke the Cape Fear with carcasses
- The shepherds will have nowhere to flee
- A pitiful condition
- Retribution in history
- The forbearance of all white men
- Book three: line of fire
- What have we done?
- Situation serious
- Strictly according to law
- Marching from death
- Not the sort of man we want here
- Justice is satisfied, vengeance is cruel
- Persons unknown
- Better get a gun
- The meanest animals
- Old scores
- The grandfather clause
- Leave it to the whites
- I cannot live in North Carolina and be treated like a man
- Epilogue