nov 10, 1898 - A violent attack by a white mob on the offices of a Black-owned newspaper in Wilmington, NC was followed by the forced ouster of the city government. This followed a mass meeting on November 9 "to assert the supremacy of the white man" (New York Times, 11/10/1898, p 4). This "riot" (The Wilmington Massacre) resulted in many deaths--estimated between 60 and 260
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nov 10, 1898
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~ 127 years ago