03/06/2024
A piece of history that some people might not know concerning the Jim Crow era. I have been thinking about this quite some time for we need not to see history repeat itself in this present time. I have a love for all people no matter who you are friend or foe, but God do not want His people to be ignorant concerning the times or the seasons at hand.
Wilmington massacre of 1898
Part of terrorism in the United States and the nadir of American race relations
Photograph of armed people by a ruined building
Mob posing by the ruins of The Daily Record
Location Wilmington, North Carolina
Date November 10, 1898
Target
Black residents
Black businesses
Elected Fusionists
The Daily Record newspaper
Attack type
Arson
Assault
Murder
Political terrorism
Propaganda
Property damage/theft
Widespread intimidation
Weapons
Gatling gun
Over 400 personal guns
Deaths est. 14–300 black residents killed[1][2][3][4][5]
Victims
est. 2,000 displaced black Americans
est. 20 Fusionists banished
Newspaper torched and gutted
Perpetrators
"The Secret Nine"
Charles Aycock
Furnifold Simmons
Josephus Daniels, owner of The News & Observer
Alfred M. Waddell
Assailants
The Red Shirts
Mob of white civilians
Wilmington Light Infantry
No. of participants 2,000
Motive
Shift in social, economic and political power during Reconstruction
White supremacy
Goals of Attack: (1) Government overthrow
(2) Maintenance of Antebellum Racial Hierarchy
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The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898,[6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898.[7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a race riot caused by black people. Since the late 20th century and further study, the event has been characterized as a violent overthrow of a duly elected government by a group of white supremacists.[8][9]
The coup was the result of a group of the state's white Southern Democrats conspiring and leading a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected local Fusionist biracial government in Wilmington. They expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the American Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed from 14[1] to an estimated 60 to more than 300 people.[2][3][4][5]
The Wilmington coup is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics. It was part of an era of more severe racial segregation and effective disenfranchisement of African Americans throughout the South, which had been underway since the passage of a new constitution in Mississippi in 1890 which raised barriers to the registration of black voters. Other states soon passed similar laws. Historian Laura Edwards writes, "What happened in Wilmington became an affirmation of white supremacy not just in that one city, but in the South and in the nation as a whole", as it affirmed that invoking "whiteness" eclipsed the legal citizenship, individual rights, and equal protection under the law that black Americans were guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment.[10][11][12]
In the book Luke 21:34-36 we find, "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."
