Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy - Softcover

Cecelski, David S.

 
9780807847558: Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy

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About the Author

David S. Cecelski is the Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor in Documentary and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of the North Carolina coast, he is author of several books, including Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South, and coeditor of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its Legacy.

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Twelve essays on the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898--the most notorious episode of a white supremacy campaign in which white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens.

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Twelve essays on the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898?the most notorious episode of a white supremacy campaign in which white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens.

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ISBN 10:  0807824518 ISBN 13:  9780807824511
Publisher: The University of North Carolina..., 1998
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