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Wilmington Railroad Museum

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Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilmington Railroad Museum
Phone:
+1 910-763-2634

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 4pm
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington race riot of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898. It is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics. The event initiated an era of more severe racial segregation and effective disenfranchisement of African Americans throughout the South, a shift already underway since passage by Mississippi of a new constitution in 1890, raising barriers to voter registration. Laura Edwards wrote in Democracy Betrayed : 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 of blacks.It was originally described by white Americans as a race riot caused by blacks. However, over time, with more facts publicized, the event has come to be classified as a coup d'état , with complex causes that were social, political, and economic. It is the only successful coup d'état on record in the U.S.The coup occurred after the state's white Democratic Party conspired and led a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately-elected local Fusionist government. They expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed an estimated 60 to more than 300 people.Whites called the event a race riot, with the implication that blacks were rioting. But whites had planned the overthrow in considerable detail. Newspaper coverage of this event popularized the misleading term race riot. The coordinated overthrow is more accurately described as the only successful coup d'état in U.S. history.
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