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Political unrest · 10 November 1898Open article references →
The Wilmington Massacre and Coup of 1898
Daily Record site and Wilmington coup landscape · United States
Why editors use it hereContemporary montage locating coup leaders, shooting sites, the installed police chief, and the burned Record building.
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Quick read
On 10 November 1898, armed white supremacists in Wilmington burned the office of the Black-owned Daily Record, killed Black residents, expelled political and business leaders, and forced the elected biracial city government to resign.
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Trigger and conditions
Democrats won the 8 November state election amid threats and ballot manipulation, but Wilmington's city officials were not up for election.
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Uncertainty
The coroner recorded fourteen deaths, while contemporary and later accounts described many more bodies and missing residents.
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Why it matters
Wilmington was a successful violent overthrow of an elected American government.
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