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The White Men Win the Wilmington Municipal Government
Waddell told the crowd, go to the polls tomorrow, and if you find a black man voting, tell him to leave. And if he doesn't, quote, kill him, shoot him down in his tracks. The next morning on election day, armed vigilantes patrolled the streets, beating or intimidating black men who tried to vote. They would remove Republican ballots and replace them with phony Democratic ballots. In some precincts there were more, quote, Democratic votes than there were a number of voters registered in the precinct.
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