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
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
Rebecca Latimer Felton
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Rebecca Ann Felton was an American writer, politician, feminist, white supremacist, and slave owner who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, serving for only one day.
Wilmington massacre
…bureau for the purpose of procuring white labor for employers". The efforts of the white supremacists peaked in August 1898. A pro-lynching speech by Rebecca Latimer Felton from 1897 was reprinted in newspapers at various times throughout the South. On August 18, 1898, Alexander Manly, one of the brothers who owned…
Felton in 1922
"A Woman of the Century"
On August 11, 1897, Felton delivered a speech promoting lynching "... I say lynch; a thousand times a week if necessary."
Felton at her Senate desk