BLACK HISTORICAL REMEMBRANCES
It must never be forgotten that we have not come to our present low state by default as African Americans. Our current desuetude was crafted by deliberate acts of sabotage, theft, mass-murder by maniacal white men and women after the Civil War. These whites were jealous, angry, of blacks' sure, swift, strides for self-sustentation that threatened all the lies, laws, myths, about blacks, upon which their wealth was propped, and their power over us, and the poorer white people, was based, that maintained their hegemony!In his poignant novel, THE MARROW OF TRADITION (1900), African American lawyer and author, Charles Waddell Chestnutt, retrieves and preserves in fiction the woeful destructive history of 1898 Wilmington , North Carolina's, upper-class, white-led, "coup d'etat," against "The Record," Wilmington's preeminent black newspaper (pictured above). It was destroyed, as were black-owned businesses, black homes and homeowners. The mob killed hundreds and forced hundreds of others into nearby swamps, until white rage abated with the restoration of white supremacy. This whites-only coup d'etat preceded the better-known economic coup against black achievements in business and home ownership in: Tulsa, Oklahoma by 23 years; by Atlanta, Georgia by 8 years; East St. Louis and Springfield, Illinois, by 19 years; Springfield, Missouri by 23 years; and in the same year as Memphis, Tennessee. "The Wilmington Riot" and the later "Red Summers of 1917-1923" it ignited, toppled over black-elected officials in various city governments, in some instances, but prominent, wealthy black enterprise always. Wilmington was once the most prominent city in the entire "Tar-Heel" state in 1898.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170721/students-help-preserve-copies-of-wilmington-record-burned-by-whites-in-1898
Saturday, July 22, 2017
BLACK HISTORICAL REMEMBRANCES, WILMINGTON N.C.
BLACK HISTORICAL REMEMBRANCES
It must never be forgotten that we have not come to our present low state by default as African Americans. Our current desuetude was crafted by deliberate acts of sabotage, theft, mass-murder by maniacal white men and women after the Civil War. These whites were jealous, angry, of blacks' sure, swift, strides for self-sustentation that threatened all the lies, laws, myths, about blacks, upon which their wealth was propped, and their power over us, and the poorer white people, was based, that maintained their hegemony!In his poignant novel, THE MARROW OF TRADITION (1900), African American lawyer and author, Charles Waddell Chestnutt, retrieves and preserves in fiction the woeful destructive history of 1898 Wilmington , North Carolina's, upper-class, white-led, "coup d'etat," against "The Record," Wilmington's preeminent black newspaper (pictured above). It was destroyed, as were black-owned businesses, black homes and homeowners. The mob killed hundreds and forced hundreds of others into nearby swamps, until white rage abated with the restoration of white supremacy. This whites-only coup d'etat preceded the better-known economic coup against black achievements in business and home ownership in: Tulsa, Oklahoma by 23 years; by Atlanta, Georgia by 8 years; East St. Louis and Springfield, Illinois, by 19 years; Springfield, Missouri by 23 years; and in the same year as Memphis, Tennessee. "The Wilmington Riot" and the later "Red Summers of 1917-1923" it ignited, toppled over black-elected officials in various city governments, in some instances, but prominent, wealthy black enterprise always. Wilmington was once the most prominent city in the entire "Tar-Heel" state in 1898.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170721/students-help-preserve-copies-of-wilmington-record-burned-by-whites-in-1898