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Wilmington's Lie

Zucchino, David

How did white supremacists overthrow a legally elected, multiracial city government in Wilmington, and what did the rest of the country learn from it?

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Author
Zucchino, David

Why read it

  • You will see how a violent takeover was prepared over months, through arming, organizing and propaganda
  • You will learn how denying people the vote can begin with terror and then be written into law
  • You will understand why a crime that went unpunished became a model copied elsewhere

Who it is for

  • A history reader who wants one town's story to explain a nation
  • A reader asking how Black Southerners lost the vote
  • A reader of narrative history built on documented events

Contents

  1. DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  2. PROLOGUE
  3. White Man’s Country
  4. Wilmington, North Carolina, November 10, 1898
  5. BOOK ONE
  6. DAYS OF HOPE
  7. CHAPTER ONE
  8. Cake and Wine
  9. Wilmington, North Carolina, Winter 1865
  10. CHAPTER TWO
  11. Good Will of the White People
  12. CHAPTER THREE
  13. Lying Out
  14. CHAPTER FOUR
  15. Marching to the Happy Land
  16. CHAPTER FIVE
  17. Ye Men of Unmixed Blood
  18. CHAPTER SIX
  19. The Avenger Cometh
  20. CHAPTER SEVEN
  21. Destiny of the Negro
  22. CHAPTER EIGHT
  23. A Yaller Dog
  24. BOOK TWO
  25. RECKONING
  26. CHAPTER NINE
  27. The Negro Problem
  28. New Bern, North Carolina, March 1898
  29. CHAPTER TEN
  30. The Incubus
  31. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  32. I Say Lynch
  33. CHAPTER TWELVE
  34. A Vile Slander
  35. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  36. An Excellent Race
  37. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  38. A Dark Scheme
  39. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  40. The Nation’s Mission
  41. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  42. Degenerate Sons of the White Race
  43. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  44. The Great White Man’s Rally and Basket Picnic
  45. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  46. White-Capping
  47. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  48. Buckshot at Close Range
  49. CHAPTER TWENTY
  50. A Drunkard and a Gambler
  51. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  52. Choke the Cape Fear with Carcasses
  53. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  54. The Shepherds Will Have Nowhere to Flee
  55. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  56. A Pitiful Condition
  57. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  58. Retribution in History
  59. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  60. The Forbearance of All White Men

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