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In 1898, two days after Black politicians won election in Wilmington, NC, a mob of more than 2,000 whites led an insurrection in which they killed 60-300 African Americans, burned down the only Black newspaper in town, and overthrew the democratically elected local government.
This violent act of white supremacist terrorism was originally referred to as the "Wilmington Race Riot." Three years later, Charles Aycock, one of the men who led the coup and instigated the violence, won election as Governor of North Carolina on a platform of white supremacy.
For almost a hundred years after the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the North Carolina government refused to recognize what had happened. But we should recognize it for what it was: a violent coup launched in response to Black political participation.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/ …
In 1874, African Americans were a majority in Eufaula, AL and had been electing Black Republicans to local office. On election, the White League, a white supremacist paramilitary group, launched an attack on African American voters at the polls.
Members of the White League killed at least seven African Americans and injured as many as seventy more. In total, more than a thousand Black voters in Eufaula and Spring Hill were driven away from the polls as a result of this racist violence.https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874-election-riot/ …
In 1898, when an election official in Greenwood County, South Carolina tried to take affidavits from African Americans who had been denied the right to vote, a white mob became outraged and led four days of racist violence targeting Black voters throughout the county.
The white mob murdered a dozen African Americans and burned down Black-owned businesses. To this day, the SC gov't refers to this act of terrorism, which sought to deny Black people the right to participate in the political process, as a "race riot."https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/phoenix-riot/ …
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