Alfred Moore Waddell
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Alfred Moore Waddell was an American white supremacist politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. representative from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and became mayor of Wi
Alfred M. Waddell between 1865 and 1880
"Wilmington Messenger." Nov. 9, 1898
New York Herald - Nov. 11, 1898
Wilmington coup, described in the Richmond Planet. Nov. 19, 1898
Wilmington massacre
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The Wilmington massacre, also known as the Wilmington insurrection or the Wilmington coup, was a municipal-level coup d'état and a massacre that was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, No
Alfred Moore Waddell
…as a U.S. representative from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and became mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina from 1898 to 1906, after he led the Wilmington insurrection and massacre of 1898. Waddell was a leader of the Wilmington massacre of 1898, in which a violent, coordinated mob of about 2,000 white men massacred up to 90 African-Americans…
Mob posing by the ruins of The Daily Record
A group of "Red Shirts" at Old Hundred, North Carolina, on Election Day 1898
Wilmington, c. 1898
John C. Dancy