Call our specialists for more details on these AA meetings Wilmington NC hosts.Ī is a referrer service that provides information about addiction treatment practitioners and facilities. is not a medical provider or treatment facility and does not provide medical advice. AlcoholicsAnonymous.Author Interviews 'Wilmington's Lie' Author Traces The Rise Of White Supremacy In A Southern City is not owned or operated by any treatment facility. ![]() In 2019, John Sullivan and his research partner, Joel Finsel, of the nonprofit Third Person Project, located the only known physical copies of the The Daily Record, which ceased publication after 1898. Then they set about searching for some of the victims of the massacre, finding Halsey's gravesite last year and McFarland's this year. "You had bodies buried privately in backyards, sometimes days after the killings, because families were afraid to come forward and be associated with the victims." "You had a lot of bodies pushed into the river," Sullivan tells NPR. He says others who hid in the swamps surrounding the city likely died of exposure or were lynched by the mob. The remains of the vast majority are unlikely to ever be found, according to Sullivan. ![]() "The majority of elected officials in the city government were African American." Calls for lynching helped spark the massacre "Wilmington was the largest city in the state at that time," explains Kenneth Janken, a professor of African, African American, and diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Janken says that a white supremacist conspiracy to take over Wilmington was in the works for some months. It appeared to gain steam in the summer, when the owner of the The Daily Record, Alex Manly, wrote a rebuttal to a speech delivered by prominent Georgia writer, lecturer and white supremacist Rebecca Felton. She called for lynching African American men to "protect" white women. "I say lynch a thousand times a week if necessary," Felton proclaimed.Ī white supremacist mob stands in front of the ruins of The Daily Record in November 1898. Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Imagesīy the time of the election in early November, white supremacists had organized into "red shirt" squads that intimidated Black voters, leading to low voter turnout and ensuring a Democratic victory. Even so, because many aldermen were not up for reelection, the city remained in the hands of a governing coalition between Republicans and Populists. Prior to the violence, the city's population was just over half African American, with many of them prosperous business owners. But between those Blacks killed and the ones either driven out or forced to flee, the racial makeup of the city was forever altered. Elaine Cynthia Brown, who grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and now lives in California, is a great-granddaughter of Halsey.
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