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The Wilmington Race Riot

The Wilmington Race Riot. On Thursday, November 10, 1898, Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, a Democratic leader in Wilmington, North Carolina mustered a white mob to retaliate for a controversial editorial written by Alexander Manly, editor of the city's black newspaper, the Daily Record.

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The Wilmington Race Riot

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  1. The Wilmington Race Riot • On Thursday, November 10, 1898, Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, a Democratic leader in Wilmington, North Carolina mustered a white mob to retaliate for a controversial editorial written by Alexander Manly, editor of the city's black newspaper, the Daily Record. • The mob burned the newspaper's office and incited a bloody race riot in the city. By the end of the week, at least fourteen black citizens were dead, and much of the city's black leadership had been banished. • This massacre further fueled an ongoing statewide disfranchisement campaign designed to crush black political power.

  2. Prohibition • N.C. banned alcoholic beverages in 1908. • 1919 the 18th amendment banned all alcohol sales and production in the U.S.

  3. Educational Reforms • In the late 1860s a new constitution created the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. • The greatest success for progressive reformers came in education. • By 1870 there were 1,400 schools in NC

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