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 seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens," most notoriously in the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898. -- back cover. In Very Good- Condition: corners rubbed; former owner's name on half title page; ink marginal marks and underlining on pages 123, 171, and 174-176; 3 page corners creased; otherwise, clean and tight. Very Good -. Item #009762
ISBN: 0807847550
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