Democracy Betrayed The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy

Name: Democracy Betrayed The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
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ISBN: 9780807847558

ISBN-10: 0807847550

ISBN-13: 9780807847558

Edition: 1998

Authors: David S. Cecelski, Timothy B. Tyson, John Hope Franklin

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At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of the campaign was the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898, which claimed the lives of many black residents and rolled back decades of progress for African Americans in the state. Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot,Democracy Betrayeddraws together the best new scholarship on the events…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Historian David S. Cecelski is author of The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina and co-editor (with Timothy B. Tyson) of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.



Foreword



Preface


Introduction



We Have Taken a City: A Centennial Essay



Abraham H. Galloway: Wilmington's Lost Prophet and the Rise of Black Radicalism in the American South



Murder, Memory, and the Flight of the Incubus



The Two Faces of Domination in North Carolina, 1800-1898



Captives of Wilmington: The Riot and Historical Memories of Political Conflict, 1865-1898



Love, Hate, Rape, Lynching: Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Gender Politics of Racial Violence



Class, Race, and Power in the New South: Racial Violence and the Delusions of White Supremacy



Fear, Hope, and Struggle: Recasting Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow



Race, Rhetoric, and Revolution



Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism: The Wilmington Riot in Two Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels



Wars for Democracy: African American Militancy and Interracial Violence in North Carolina during World War II



Epilogue from Greensboro, North Carolina: Race and the Possibilities of American Democracy



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Index