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

by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847550
• ISBN13: 9780807847558
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"