(CIVIL WAR RIGHTS RIOTS) HAYDEN HARRY The Story of the Wilm

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(CIVIL WAR RIGHTS--RIOTS.) HAYDEN, HARRY. The Story of the Wilmington Rebellion. 32 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, stapled. Wilmington, NC, for the author, 1936

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first edition. The extended cover title of this unusual history reads: "First authentic account of the Wilmington Revolution of 1898, which resulted in the elimination of the Negro as a political factor in Wilmington and North Carolina, and which led to the disfranchisement of the race throughout the South through the instrumentality of the 'Grandfather Clause.'" A remarkably frank examination of the causes of the bloody Wilmington race riots of 1898. "I'm going to give you the inside story of this insurrection" says the author in the voice of folksy old Confederate veteran, Jessie Blake. And he proceeds to explain the whys and wherefores of the "Revolution" of Wilmington's 8000 whites, a minority among the city's 25,000 blacks, to a group of modern day youths. The myth of the Negro as rapist is again given as one of the prime causes: "From 1895 onward it became more and more dangerous for white girls and women to venture out of doors after dark." Hayden for the first time, acknowledges how "the Secret Nine," a group of white businessmen had actually plotted the coup. Cited by John Godwin in his "Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way: portrait of a Community in the Era of Civil Rights Protest." (University Press of America, 2000.)