Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy - Softcover

Cecelski, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807847550 ISBN 13: 9780807847558

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

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The overall quality of this volume, along with the skill and consistency with which it is edited, is unusually high."North Carolina Historical Review" The essays offer us a rich understanding of the complex historical interplay of race, gender, and social class."Journal of Southern History" YIt shows national trends and social processes with local concreteness."Southern Cultures" "The overall quality of this volume, along with the skill and consistency with which it is edited, is unusually high."North Carolina Historical Review"" "The essays offer us a rich understanding of the complex historical interplay of race, gender, and social class."Journal of Southern History"" [I]t shows national trends and social processes with local concreteness."Southern Cultures" An extraordinarily rich and thoughtful collection of essays."Journal of American History"

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At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of the campaign was the Wilmington ""race riot"" of 1898, which claimed the lives of many black residents and rolled back decades of progress for African Americans in the state. Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot, Democracy Betrayed draws together the best new scholarship on the events of 1898 and their aftermath. Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy. The contributors are David S. Cecelski, William H. Chafe, Laura F. Edwards, Raymond Gavins, Glenda E. Gilmore, John Haley, Michael Honey, Stephen Kantrowitz, H. Leon Prather Sr., Timothy B. Tyson, LeeAnn Whites, and Richard Yarborough. |Twelve essays on the Wilmington ""race riot"" of 1898--the most notorious episode of a white supremacy campaign in which white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807847550
• ISBN 13: 9780807847558
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318