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A Grandmother's Terrified Warning
- Cynthia Brown remembers her bedridden great-grandmother Thalia grabbing her wrist and repeating, "If it ever happens, run."
- Thalia's terrified warning haunted Cynthia until she later learned it referred to the 1898 Wilmington violence.
Wilmington As A Reconstruction Outlier
- Wilmington was an unusual Reconstruction-era outlier with a majority Black population and integrated government.
- That political and economic success made Wilmington a target for a coordinated white supremacist campaign.
Media As A Weapon For White Supremacy
- Josephus Daniels used his Raleigh News and Observer as a deliberate propaganda weapon to restore white supremacy.
- The paper led a coordinated regional disinformation campaign that prepared the ground for violence.