| 1898 Wilmington Race Riot — Final Report, May 31, 2006 — (PDF) |
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| T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S |
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| Front Matter |
Wilmington Race Riot Commission — North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources — Archives & History — Invitation for Public Comment — Introduction — Table of Contents— List of Maps |
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| Chapter 1 |
INTO RECONSTRUCTION AND OUT AGAIN — The End of the Civil War in Wilmington — Wilmington’s Social and Class Structure — Occupied Wilmington — Chronology of Reconstruction — Reconstruction in North Carolina — Legacy of Reconstruction — Reconstruction in Wilmington — Post Reconstruction Wilmington |
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MAP: Wilmington Ward Boundaries
MAP: African American Churches in Wilmington
MAP: Fire Stations in Wilmington, 1898
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| Chapter 2 |
FORCES OF CHANGE: Fusion Politics and the African American Community in Wilmington — Birth of Fusion — Early Fusion in Wilmington — Fusion Reform — Fusion Re-Visited in 1896 — Complete Fusion Victory — Fusion Focus on Wilmington — Wilmington’s African Americans and Fusion — Plans Laid to Force End of Fusion |
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MAP: Wilmington Schools, 1898
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PRACTICAL POLITICS: Writing, Speaking and Riding in the 1898 Campaign — Development of the Democratic “Machine” — Republican Reaction — Wilmington’s Democrats Organize — Alfred Moore Waddell — Vigilance Committees and Paramilitary Organization — The Wilmington Light Infantry — Chapter 3, Part 2 |
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EVE OF DESTRUCTION — A Unifying Issue — Response of Wilmington’s Non-Democrats and African Americans — Final Maneuvers — Election Day — November Ninth: Mass Meeting of White Citizens — Response of the Committee of Colored Citizens
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MAP: Homes of Key Participants
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NOVEMBER 10: "HELL JOLTED LOOSE" — March to the Record — Hell Broke Loose — Standoff at Sprunt’s Cotton Compress — Eye of the Storm – Fourth and Harnett Streets — WLI Enter Brooklyn — Machine Gun Squads — Coup d’etat |
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MAP: Wilmington Race Riot
MAP: Wilmington Race Riot Inset
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| Chapter 6 |
RESOUNDING CHANGE — Banishment Campaign — Men Banished From Wilmington During and After November 10th Violence — Dead and Wounded — Black Dead/Wounded — Other Targets — Waddell and his Cabinet — Peace Restored — Democrats Celebrate — Repayment for Services Rendered |
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DESTINY OF A RACE — State and National Reaction — Legal Strategies to Address Violence — African American Reaction — Democrats Practice Damage Control — Legislation to Affirm Coup — Disfranchisement — 1900 Election — Historical Voting Statistics for New Hanover County — Moving Forward — Changes for African American Education — Employment — Complete Change |
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REBUILDING — Political Consequences — Economic Consequences — Tabulation of Summary Data from the 1897 and 1900 City Directories — African American Occupations by Category from 1897 and 1900 Wilmington City Directories — Changes in the 1900 City Directory — African American Occupation Changes in the 1897 and 1900 City Directories — Directory Data and Entrepreneurship — Property Ownership — Census Analysis — Case Studies — Mapping the City — Societal Change — Collective Memory — Wilmington’s Riot and Racial Clashes in the South |
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MAP: African American Businesses, 1897
MAP: African American Businesses, 1900
MAP: Residential Patterns by Race, 1897
MAP: Residential Patterns by Race, 1905
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| Appendix A |
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES |
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| Appendix B |
AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES IN WILMINGTON |
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| Appendix C |
CHANGES TO WILMINGTON CHARTER, 1868-1901 |
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| Appendix D |
NEW HANOVER COUNTY TAX LISTS: 1897 and 1900 |
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| Appendix E |
WILMINGTON SCHOOLS |
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| Appendix F |
ROSTER OF THE WILMINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY
AND NAVAL RESERVES
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| Appendix G |
"EVER THREATENED… EVER IN NEED":
ALEXANDER MANLY’S CONFRONTATION WITH
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN IN 1898 NORTH CAROLINA
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| Appendix H |
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WILMINGTON RIOT
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| Appendix I |
ESSAY ON WILMINGTON CRIME, ECONOMY AND CORRUPTION PRIOR TO 1898
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| Appendix J |
PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY CORRESPONDENCE, 1898
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| Appendix K |
CITY DIRECTORY DATA
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| Appendix L |
PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS BY AFRICAN AMERICANS, WITH J-Z SURNAMES
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| Appendix M |
REMEMBERING 1898:
LITERARY RESPONSES AND PUBLIC MEMORY OF THE WILMINGTON RACE RIOT
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| Appendix N |
TIMELINE
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| Appendix O |
"1898 WILMINGTON RACE RIOT
ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS" — PRELIMINARY FINDINGS — BY TOD HAMILTON AND DR. WILLIAM A. DARITY, JR.
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| Bibliography |
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WILMINGTON RACE RIOT OF 1898
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