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- Up one level
- As hate crimes rise, some look to an impeached NC governor for lessons
Will Doran, News & Observer, Nov. 24/25, 2018 Eddie Davis, a former teacher and politician known as Durham’s historian, organized an event in Raleigh to honor the 200th birthday of William Woods Holden, who served as NC governor from 1868-71 and led ill-fated efforts to create a society where black and white people would be treated as equals. Just halfway into his term, Holden was impeached and then removed from office by white-supremacist politicians in the state legislature who opposed his efforts to imprison members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- White supremacists took over a city – now NC is doing more to remember the deadly attack
Will Doran, The News & Observer, December 30, 2017 The North Carolina government is officially recognizing what historians call the only successful coup d’etat in American history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era government in Wilmington in 1898.
- Wilmington on Fire 1898: Massacre in Wilmington, NC by Christopher Everett (2 hr)
TrueJourneyRadioShow, 8/28/2014 "Christopher Everett filmmaker of "Wilmington on Fire" the1898 Massacre in Wilmington, NC. The feature length documentary will give a historical and present day look at the Wilmington Massacre and how the descendants of the victims of the event are asking for legal action in regards to compensation."
- Wilmington On Fire - trailer
About the film, plus short trailers "The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina. It is considered one of the only successful examples of a coup d'état in the United States that left countless numbers of African-American citizens dead and exiled from the city."