The Coup in Wilmington (1898)
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What's Going on in Wilming?
White democrats stuffed ballot boxes and some black areas o the number of votes that went democratic. President mc kinley knew about this, like it wasn't though. It wasn't as though he was unaware and some psychiac do you know what's going on? He was warned, he was told, he was briefed. A even meets with the most prominent black person of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, burkerty washington,. They no longer want to have a federal presence in the south - sort of saying what they can or cannot do. So if were to send in troops, it would send the message to the south again: Oh, oh, or you're policing us.
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