An estimated 300 residents were killed and many businesses destroyed.
A sign in Wilmington, North Carolina acknowledges the violent 1898 coup by white supremacists.On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the city's local leaders, which included a mix of white and Black elected officials, to resign in what historians call the only successful coup in U.S. history.
Campbell-Eason said she only found out a few years ago about the insurrection and how her great, great grandfather Isham Quick was evicted from town banks that he successfully managed. Historians said that such economic success among Black Wilmington residents was not uncommon during the end of the 19th century. Many of those entrepreneurs worked with white business owners, according to historians.A sign in Wilmington, North Carolina acknowledges the violent 1898 coup by white supremacists.
Tensions rose in August of that year when white Wilmington newspapers ran a racist speech from the year before by Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia. "He essentially said that white women choose to be with Black men," Umfleet said. "And that was an insult to the white leadership that a white woman would choose to be with a Black man. So he becomes a target."
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