Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy; Edited by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson; foreword by John Hope Franklin
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Paperback. xvi, 301 p.; 24 cm. Paperback. At the end of the 19th century in North Carolina, "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..... More