University Of Tennessee
Hendersonville, Tennessee
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Known as the Wilmington Massacre and Coup d'État of 1898, it was a violent overthrow of a legally elected, multiracial city government (the Fusionist government). A white supremacist mob of around 2,000 men—including members of the Red Shirts and a group of leaders known as the "Secret Nine"—led by former Confederate officer Alfred Moore Waddell....
Two days after a white supremacist election campaign, the mob torched The Daily Record (edited by Alex Manly), murdered dozens to hundreds of Black residents, and forced the city's Black and white reformist officials to resign at gunpoint. Alfred Moore Waddell was installed as the city's mayor, thousands of Black residents were permanently displaced or fled the city, and the coup ushered in the rigid era of Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement across North Carolina.
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The men watched the newspaper office burn.
Some carried rifles. Others wore red shirts—the uniform of a white-supremacist movement that had spent months terrorizing Black voters across North Carolina.
When the flames had consumed the printing press, members of the crowd gathered before the ruins and posed for a photograph. They wanted history to remember what they had done.
By sunset, people lay dead in the streets, elected officials had been driven from office, and the man who led the mob had become mayor.
It was November 10, 1898.
American democracy had not merely been attacked in Wilmington, North Carolina. It had been overthrown.
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Wilmington was unlike the city its attackers wanted it to become. Black citizens formed a majority of the population. They owned businesses, practiced medicine and law, served as policemen and magistrates, and held public office. Black craftsmen worked beside white laborers along the river. Black families built churches, schools, homes, and newspapers.
The city was governed by a biracial coalition of Republicans and Populists known as the Fusion movement. It was imperfect, fractious, and vulnerable, but it demonstrated something white supremacists considered intolerable:
Black citizens could vote, govern, prosper, and exercise political power.
North Carolina’s Democratic Party leadership of that era organized an explicitly white-supremacist campaign to destroy Fusion government. Newspapers filled their pages with racial propaganda. Speakers warned that “Negro rule” threatened white civilization. Armed Red Shirts rode through Black communities, breaking up meetings and intimidating voters.
Behind the campaign stood some of the state’s most powerful politicians, editors, businessmen, and former Confederate officers. Their target in Wilmington became The Daily Record, one of the nation’s few Black-owned daily newspapers. Its editor was Alex Manly.
Months earlier, Manly had answered a white reformer who portrayed lynching as necessary to protect white women from Black men. Manly denounced sexual assault but also challenged the lie underlying many lynchings: that every interracial relationship involved a predatory Black man and an innocent white woman.
White newspapers reprinted his words across the state, stripped of context and surrounded by inflammatory commentary. Manly’s editorial became the weapon the campaign needed.
Alfred Moore Waddell, a former Confederate officer and congressman, called upon white men to remove Wilmington’s government. If necessary, he declared, they should fill the Cape Fear River with bodies.
On November 8, Democrats swept the state election after a campaign marked by threats, voter intimidation, and manipulated returns. But Wilmington’s existing municipal government remained in office. So the conspirators decided to remove it themselves.
#archaeohistories
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Jesus…I get they are savage criminals in fact but even they do of course deserve no question better kind of humane prison conditions than all this.
Does anyone follow the rules of the Geneva Convention now anymore?!
CE PAYS QUI A VÉCU DANS LA PEUR MARCHE MAINTENANT TRANQUILLE 🇸🇻
«Voici comment vivent les pandilleros au CECOT, la prison de haute sécurité d’El Salvador.
Ils dorment sur des lits métalliques sans matelas, sans oreiller et sans draps.
Ils partagent leur cellule avec jusqu’à 80 détenus.
La lumière ne s’éteint jamais, ni le jour ni la nuit.
Ils mangent des haricots et du riz, sans couverts, et jamais de viande.
Ils se lavent avec un seau d’eau tirée d’un bac en ciment.
Ils passent 23h30 enfermés. La demi-heure restante sert à faire de l’exercice dans le couloir ou à lire la Bible.
Aucune visite. Pas même de leur mère, de leur femme ou de leurs enfants.
C’est dur.
Et c’est exactement comme ça que ça doit être.
Pendant des années, ces mêmes hommes décidaient qui vivait et qui mourait dans les quartiers. Ils extorquaient des familles qui n’avaient déjà presque rien à manger et ont forcé des milliers de personnes à fuir leur maison.
Aujourd’hui, pour le peuple salvadorien, c’est une forme de guérison.
Les mères laissent leurs enfants jouer dans la rue.
Les commerces ouvrent sans payer de « taxe » à personne.
Ce pays qui a vécu dans la peur marche maintenant tranquille.»
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I see a couple of Hispanics; I am surprised they are not in quite imminent danger now being in fact in that area.
HARD HATS AND HANDSHAKES: President Trump greets construction workers and signs their hard hats during a visit to the site of the new White House ballroom.
The visit comes as construction reaches a major milestone, with the final piece of steel placed for the new ballroom. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum tells workers they are “making history,” praising the project as a lasting addition to the White House that could stand for generations.
The unscheduled visit marks Trump’s first public appearance since Tuesday’s midterm elections, which delivered major Democratic victories.
Download the Fox News app or visit FoxNews.com for more on the ballroom project and Trump’s visit.
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Great another phony Carrie Underwood wanna be government official.
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Smutna wiadomość. Dzisiaj w wieku 109 lat zmarł kpt. Tadeusz Lutak ps. „Pancerz”. Był najstarszym mężczyzną w Polsce i ostatnim żyjącym żołnierzem pancernego oddziału gen. "Maczka". 🇵🇱
– Czasami śnią mi się twarze poległych kolegów… 1 września przywołuje wojenne wspomnienia – wspominał Pan Kapitan.
Zdobywał cenne dla Armii Krajowej informacje wywiadowcze. Uczestniczył w wielu akcjach sabotażowych i dywersyjnych. Brał udział w akcji likwidacyjnej na Edwardzie Kochu w Niebylcu, który otrzymał wyrok śmierci za współpracę z Niemcami.
– O Polskę nie można było się nie bić! Gdyby trzeba było iść po raz drugi, też bym się nie zastanawiał… – powtarzał.
Spoczywaj w pokoju, Bohaterze!
Kondolencje dla Rodziny i Bliskich.
#NieZapomnijONas
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He did this last season then as well. Certainly he still has got it!
WATCH: At 105 years old, World War II veteran Staff Sgt. Dominick Critelli brings a packed hockey arena to its feet with his saxophone rendition of the national anthem.
Critelli performs "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the New York Islanders' home opener, then tips his cap as the crowd erupts in applause.
The decorated veteran spent 151 days in combat during World War II and earned multiple medals for his service.
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