Students who've had a good course in early African American literature likely know the history. One of the premier black/mixed-race authors of the period, Charles Chesnutt, wrote a novel about the Wilmington Massacre called The Marrow of Tradition. Chesnutt was originally from NC and still had family there when the coup occurred. He wrote his novel precisely to counter the supremacist propaganda that was characterizing events in Wilmington as a "race riot" in which blacks were the aggressors who needed to be violently subdued.
I live in Wilmington, and when I found out about this event, I couldn’t believe how few people knew about this. The government didn’t acknowledge this happened until after I moved here about 2006 to 2009. This is insane and should be in every history book published about American history. We are finally starting to reckon with it and have renamed several schools, parks, buildings, etc. I have taught descendants of people on both sides, but worked at a private school where, mostly, they were on the white supremacist side. The lingering racism is staggering. We are one of the most segregated cities I have seen, although I come from New England, so most of the major cities down south are segregated - not by government mandate, but by socioeconomic status. Generational wealth was stolen from so many. We drive by Smith Creek where many Black Americans hid. By November, the water is cold. They hid for days. A woman gave birth there, and descendants live today. WE NEED MORE EXPOSURE OF REAL AMERICAN HISTORY #thankyouPBS #thankyouDemocracyNow
Things have been hidden for years. America cant get ahead of life because they wont face the issues. We are suppose United,our government doe'snt look that way.😮
Some people will label you as “woke” for just simply wanting more of our dark history exposed to the light! This country will never get better until and after we have faced the demons in our past!
If you’ve ever wondered where did the january 6th coup came from, this is were. There are some people willing to burn their country to the ground rather than losing their grip on everything.
Exactly- and the phrase “Pull yourselves up from your bootstraps” has been misread. It is literally impossible to pull yourself up while standing-boots or no boots. Wilmington is a beautiful and crazy place.
I was born in North Carolina in 1969. I attended primary, middle, high school, and college in North Carolina. I was stationed for a while at Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty) in the Army near Fayetteville, NC. I just learned about the Wilmington massacre in 2020. I had never heard of it. Was it during this time when America was "great?"
You can start change by not calling it a "war". Its like saying mom and dad were in a fist fight when you know mom was totally defenseless against dad's blows.
Reconciliation or not, these historic heinous acts have led to today's 1. Wealth disparity, 2. Policing disparity, 3. Housing disparities, 4. Health disparities, and 5. Educational disparities!
There are so many, many, many more of these cities overthrown that got pushed under the rug, never to be discussed. With a little patience and research we can find out and expose the wrongs that have occurred.
My family is from Wilmington NC and I am sicken still to this day. I believe my Grandmother's mother was among those murdered on that wretched day November 10, 1898.
@@dirkdillary4925 Thanks for the reminder of Red Summer 1919 which is among so many many, many of these injustices that kept occurring over and over again that some refer to as the United Snakes of AmeriKKKa. Wrong is wrong and right is right. Wilmington NC did not receive justice to this day and there is blood that has to be avenged. The phrase of "liberty and justice for all" sounds like the biggest joke of all times.
Born and raised in the Port City and I was never told/taught about this history. While sitting in the Airport in Wilmington in December of 1998, a white man from the North who taught at UNCW told me about this great atrocity.
This was a massacre (not a riot). I still feel that pain and grief that is has caused me from not knowing whether my grandmother's mother and other relatives that were among those murdered in the swamps/woods or in that town by the Gatling gun(s). When crimes like this happen, it all explains why too many black families to this day are impoverished, and how they have been uprooted from what moral character they had but are now and clearly DYSFUNCTIONAL which is so hard to shake off. .My entire family is definitely owed reparations!!!
By your logic, any white person that is killed by a black person, the white person's great grandchildren should get reparations to? Fair is fair right?
@@davidgoodman6924 What is actually sick is that you are justifying these foul takeovers of these towns. If Blacks had not been murdered and constantly attacked they would have far surpassed the white supremacists and the white supremacists being cowards were fully aware. Being that the white supremacists and those who share their ideology whether they have white skin or not are cowards they can only resort to violence because they are savages.
@@davidgoodman6924 Why did some Jews get reparations from the Holocaust and there are still organizations in place today to help Holocaust survivors? Only when the victims are Blacks reparations are not due but everyone else is entitled to reparations, which sounds really fair right?
@@davidgoodman6924 What about Jews during the Holocaust that sold out other Jews? That did not stop Jews from getting reparations. What about Jews that took part in the African slave trade? What about white on white crime? Also many people argue that African chiefs were tricked because the European concept of slavery and the African concept of slavery were different.
They never want black people to have anything! Some of this history was passed down in my family as “ They burned it down because they weren’t having it anymore.” I’m so interested in finding out the details and sharing it with my family.
Things don't have to remain the same. Black people need to realize, no matter how high up we get, we need to be armed, trained, unified and willing to defend ourselves against violent white supremacy
Like nearly everyone in this comment section I have lived in Wilmington for 22 years and was NEVER taught this in school or elsewhere. This isn't even just an important local piece of history this is also the only successful Coup in this history of America. Absolutely shameful that this gets hidden from the public or watered down
Neither was i in school . To me i think it is intentionally done NOT to teach these important historical events just as i never told about black wall street massacre.
Wow u guys are right in opposite world lol. Look at what the dems did in Wilmington. The dems seperated Populists and reps by spreading racist hate so they could retain power which lasted for the next 100 yrs. They got this power off of a coup where after their dem racist tactics didnt kick out all the reps/populistthey wanted, they killed the rest and threaten the municipality. The dems tactics haven't changed. They still use race to divide and conquer. And you ppl have the balls to compare that to Reps!? Look at your party! Its always been your party. The party of slavery, jimcrow laws, lynching, and coups. The party responsible for the Wilmington insurrection is the dems, you idiots! And again the dems push their racist ideology by telling you black ppl are inferior, and you tools eat it up.
@@aikidoka00 stop the dems of that day are like the Republicans of today in the 1960's it flipped again your acting like the same democrats of today were exactly same back then no you can't go back 150 years put it like this you would've been a Democrat back then as simple as that....
@@aikidoka00 they do that on both sides but don't act like Republicans back in 1800's are the same ones now it flipped in the 60's and many blacks were forced to walk away because all they wanted was some respect that would be right after my grandfather came back from Korean War he went to steelmill worked and raised his family and here I am working in a steelmill but I believe you have to explain real history there was a time were blacks were loved and became office holders look at Wilmington 1898 its sad what they did to those people probably did whatever they wanted to smashing babies heads and laughing you gotta tell the truth it wasn't about cutting down cherry trees...
From top to bottom, American racism on full display. For those blacks today that argue America has been a work in progress and has shed its sin of slavery and racism through blood and turmoil, look at this, Greenwood in Tulsa in 1921, Rosewood in Florida, Atlanta in 1903, East St. Louis in 1919, and so on. The most important aspect of this story is how racism resurges, as we experience our "make America great again" period now.
It’s a national piece of history. If you think about it, the roles of the parties have reversed, today. And the same thing is going on. When one party wants to prevent people from voting, and takes power by preventing people from voting, history is repeating itself. And on a national level. 1898, meet 2012, 2016 and 2020. (P.S. I’m a native North Carolinian.) And oh, also. The white supremacy move,ent was funded by the “Secret Nine”. Nine rich guys who overturned an election and funded the whole thing. Frankly, you can’t make this shit up, eh?
you dont know it because it was hidden from history and the library's would not even release info about it im not sure what year it was released i think 1997
There are a lot more pieces of history that they do not teach or even acknowledge it has been subsequently whitewashed in HIs-Story. The would burn houses down and kill to destroy evidence. Many incidence were hardly publicized because of racism. Wilmington was a city that both black and white were living without conflict. The south was so racist and people want us to forget about the past? HELL NO! We did not do it, they did. America enslaved then oppressed people that were peaceful until you brought violence in our communities. Now you expected today to be peaceful and wait until America owns its actions and stop lying and whitewashing its insidious history. "WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN AGAINST OPPRESSION THEN AND NOW"!
@@marklawrence6176 BUT IN THE MEANTIME, MR MARK,... STOP SAYING "AMERICA"... as it is most certainly NOT AMERICA causing all of this chaos and injustice... ----IT IS THE FEW---- -THE POWERS THAT BE- ---IT'S THE CORRUPT--- IT'S OUR GOVERNMENT❗️❗️❗️
Cant just say, "let's heal and move on" this has to be reconciled through reparations and restitution and it will be. Just not how we think its gonna happen.
@@davidgoodman6924 You obviously do not understand the gravity of these massacre's nor do you care. If you have the ability to do so, please go and find an incident of this magnitute that was committed by a group of armed black men. This acts are not simply murders, they are mass killings of innocent black men and women who wanted nothing but simply a normal life.
@@davidgoodman6924 A black person who murdered a white person is a crime. What occurred in the massacres of black citizens was white supremacists aided by the government to persecute and annihilate black citizens with murder and deprivation of human rights, this was no isolated crime.
Seriously neither did I and this is not the only time this happend as I am learning...I am very thankful for this recounting...seriously I was never taught any of this history in school or life...thank you for the presentation...this helps me to understand my country's actual racist past and the anger and frustration from our minorities a bit better thank you again no matter how sad and disgusting this is
Wow. Red shirts and Red Hats. This is the same thing that was going on during Trumps campaign. Almost verbatim. See, History unchecked will repeat itself.
I went to school in NC public schools from 1st grade to 12th. Why was I never taught this? This is what they should be teaching us! Not making us memorize speeches by MLK or Frederick Douglas.
Well, You could have been working as a child and not had the blessing of going to school at all! What have you contributed to society that gives you any right to demand what teachers should or should not have taught you.
They teach you what they want you to know. By teaching you selected things and hiding other things or "massaging" the truth, they can control your thoughts, feelings and actions. If they taught you this and other things, then you might not act in their best interest. You would start to question, wonder and maybe even.... act.
I read about Bacons Rebellion and was amazed that it’s not taught in schools. However, teaching such things would open poor whites eyes to see who their real enemy is. Hint: it ain’t people of color.
Born and raised there and was never told about this history. While sitting in the Airport in Wilmington in December of 1998, a white man from the North who taught at UNCW told me about this great atrocity. This massacre (not a riot) caused me a lot of pain, not knowing whether my grandmother's mother and other relative were among those murdered in those swamps or in that town by the Gatling gun(s). My entire family is definitely owed reparations.
@@deowil1 that man was not "white", he was Caucasian...lets make it a habit to call them what they are....white is a color and they are not white....✊🏽
Thanks PBS for shedding light on this. McKinley turning a blind eye is disappointing. Surprised no one has told this story either in a movie or mini series. North Carolina still feels the affect of this coup 120 years later.
@rgwebb5165 A contemporaneous novel about the coup was published in 1901. Charles Chesnutt, a black/mixed race author who was raised in Fayetteville, NC, and still had family and connections in the state when the Wilmington Massacre happened, wrote The Marrow of Tradition precisely to counter the white supremacist propaganda noted in the interview.
I always wanted to know more about black history growing up in nc. They talked about everything else but black people. And they NEVER talked about this.
Black history & civil rights ARE American history with roots going back before there even was a USA! It needs to be acknowledged & taught year round, not just 1 month out of 12.
This is why literature is important. I was waiting and hoping the author would mention Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel, The Marrow of Tradition, but seems like he's never heard of it. Chesnutt was a mixed race (he could pass) writer who lived in postwar Fayetteville, NC, for 16 years and still had family and connections in the state when the Wilmington Massacre happened in 1898. He wrote The Marrow of Tradition exactly to counter white supremacist propaganda that painted the coup as a "race riot" in which blacks were the aggressors, and whites had no choice but to subdue them violently. While Chesnutt's conjure stories were more popular than his novels, he was well-regarded enough that Marrow was reviewed in mainstream periodicals, including by the leading gatekeeper of American literature at the time, William Dean Howells.
Just watched part 2 trailer followed by discussion with film maker and participants from the film. This history would not have been widely known if not for film maker Chris Everett 2015 documentary film Wilmington on fire.
I'd certainly not expect white supremacists to join with the leftists, but that in no wise means conservatives want them either! There is 1 thing racists & marxists do have in common. Ala Lenin, they think we're all "useful idiots."
@@bobbymoore8 Not so much a defense, just fact. Until we can handle that nothing will ever change. Does injustice, prejudice, & discrimination still exist in 21st century USA? Of course it does, but bitterness, hostility, & a constant "victim" mentality only keeps the same old tired song & dance playing! Sadly, too many of our black men/women are still their own worst enemy.
It was attempted but did not succeed. Now we know how it happens now we know what needs to be done because we can learn from the past to create a different future. Continue to fight for a unified legacy.
Everything was too close: the attempted coup, GA election, the general election... It's like getting biopsy results, right? Now we see the extent of disease and can work intentionally on the remedy.
Just to be clear the insurrection was caused by Democratics because they are the party of slavery and jim crow laws. They used the same tactics they use today, racism.
At the end, he squeezed in “they came to some kind of reconciliation” FALSE! A monument off a highway that no one sees is NOT reconciliation. Admitting it happened is NOT reconciliation. We have much work to do.
Historical novel by Charles W. Chestnut, The Marrow of Tradition. Great book written in the style popular in the early 1900’s. This book was one of the best I’ve read examining the personal lives of both black and white people in Wilmington.
Don't forget the trumped up scandal of the Wilmington 10 in 1971. Like the Central Park 5, Black people were jailed for years before appeals finally freed them.
What frightens me about today’s Wilmington is the gross “whitewashing” and colorism among immigrants. It boggles my mind when I saw a few Honduran immigrants dye their hair blond. It looks ridiculous, especially when you grow that crap out....
I am not a native of NC but am an American and have lived in the state for 40 years. I learned this disgraceful history of Wilmington from a book published in 1994 called "Cape Fear Rising."
As I recall, there is a book titled "Last Battle of the Civil War" which describes a black community in FL being massacred in the same way you describe in Wilmington. This was in 1865.
This needs to be taught in All public schools in fact its said that 100s of African Americans were throw in the cape fear river I believe A LOT more lives were lost, extremely sad and the actual facts are it's still bad here in New Hanover county, I have only lived in Wilmington since September and Its a beautiful town but I hope that this is a lesson of hate and an outline on what can happen I PRAY ALL PEOPLE PULL TOGETHER AND FLUSH OUT THE HATE, Its LONG over due!!! Black lives Matter, ONE HUMANITY!!!!
I studied this in Dutch history and it was just one of many Black Wall Streets "Mohrenstraße" that were taken out by Gov and racist citizens. Originally Black communities was inhabited by Blacks (Mixed race people of color) mainly Indo-Europeans and not Anglo-Europeans.
This is another story like Black Wall Street, l didn’t hear of until l turned somewhat gray. How many more are out there? Nothing has changed. It’s getting worse.’This country will pay for its SINS!
You have never heard the most famous person from that city, Wilmington, say anything about this. Michael Jordan. I learned about this 56 years ago along with many other events like this that occurred from 1875-1930 in school from the book, "A Chronological History of the Negro In America" by Mort and Peter Bergman. This book was used in the Detroit and Chicago public school system.
So this is my problem. When I have conversations with people over the years in regards to events such as this one, I get pushback when I say that there "ARE TWO Americas'. This proves it, as is has time and time again. Some people will never reconcile with the truth.
15:30 Edward William Brooke III was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate.
the year 1910 jack johnson became the first black heavyweight champ of the world. race riots occured throughout the country. in memphis and new orleans. just to name a coulple cities. a 9yr-old louis armstrong(who became a american music icon) recalled having to hide from the mob in the city of new orleans. history always repeats itself.
@@andrewderry5156 and now Republicans will be remembered as the party of white hooded persons, swastikas, various confederate banners and chants of white power.😆😂🤣😂😂🥲
You can try covering everyone with the same blanket but it still won't be truth! It was white democrat supremacist who protested against blacks in Wilmington! Blacks have continuously been trodden down by white democrats while telling them they're for them!
My husband is working in Wilmington this week. He and his crew, 5 of them stopped in at a restaurant. They were asked if they had reservations (which they did not) and was told it would be awhile. While waiting, many people came in and were seated. When he mentioned that none of those people were asked about reservations, they were asked to wait outside. He called to tell me about what happened. I told him about this story. I looked for a link to send to him and landed here. They stole the land and destroyed black families of course they wouldn't welcome you to eat alongside them.
Very good interview and history lesson. No thanks to Georgia public school history classes. Curriculum needs a revamp to real history, not white headlines.
Teaching only good history that makes you feel great = propaganda. I’m a Tar Heel. They don’t teach this to this day. We must understand our history or are doomed to repeat it.
The peices of the puzzle will shock you. You will be stunned and horrified to see the ugly side of what has been allowed to happen to other humans, who were enslaved and hated for the color of their skin when you embark upon your journey into history. To this day descendants of those same evil doers who got away with murder, rape and sodomy, theft and all other heinous crimes have profited and have done NOTHING to correct their wrongdoing. They have swept it under the rug and now the truth is coming out.
@@deowil1 What about the black African tribal chiefs that sold there own people to the white man, do they get a pass? What about the black American slave owners, do they get a pass? You all seem to forget about that tid bit of history huh.
@@davidgoodman6924 What about Jews during the Holocaust that sold out other Jews? That did not stop Jews from getting reparations. What about Jews that took part in the African slave trade? What about white on white crime? Also many people argue that African chiefs were tricked because the European concept of slavery and the African concept of slavery were different.
@@davidgoodman6924 So this is hidden history that was never told. But you have history that a white man wrote to say slaves sold in Africa by black Africans. I wonder if he may have left the real criminal out bcause it's his story like this story 🤔 Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏.
... Big history buff here, American west, civil war, anything political and I first heard about this 4 days ago on Public televisions American Experience, this has been too well hidden, it was like watching the last 8 years but in black and white pictures and video...
The word says "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows." It is now time for this information and much more to be put into American history. American history is Black history it's the only history that we have with any pride! This country should truly be a different place build on hard work not the backs of slaves or the misery of Mass massacre.... this is not the only place that this kind of thing happened it happened in greenwood, Archer, pine and many other places
Wow! American history does not cease to cause shock and shame! What a deplorable set of depraved humans! Indeed it was the base fellows and convicts who were extradited to the U.S. Many of them just had no human compassion or basic human decency.
They were more than 60 there were hundreds of people why not tell the whole story 60 government workers councilman or whoever they were turn on even know the number of people that would kill because they didn't take the number of people but they think it was probably 2 to 300 people. When you give a little part 2 a stop making light of the death of hundreds of people makes me angry when you introduce it this way
I've lived in Wilmington for 28 years now and I have only heard of watered-down version of this. I need to get that book and read it
Please do...
Me too I'll have to get this book . I'm from Virgin Island but my son was born here in Wilmington ...
There are older books with more info
No you need to go downtown aka Brooklyn and read in the library 📚 2nd floor
Students who've had a good course in early African American literature likely know the history. One of the premier black/mixed-race authors of the period, Charles Chesnutt, wrote a novel about the Wilmington Massacre called The Marrow of Tradition. Chesnutt was originally from NC and still had family there when the coup occurred. He wrote his novel precisely to counter the supremacist propaganda that was characterizing events in Wilmington as a "race riot" in which blacks were the aggressors who needed to be violently subdued.
I live in Wilmington, and when I found out about this event, I couldn’t believe how few people knew about this. The government didn’t acknowledge this happened until after I moved here about 2006 to 2009. This is insane and should be in every history book published about American history. We are finally starting to reckon with it and have renamed several schools, parks, buildings, etc. I have taught descendants of people on both sides, but worked at a private school where, mostly, they were on the white supremacist side. The lingering racism is staggering. We are one of the most segregated cities I have seen, although I come from New England, so most of the major cities down south are segregated - not by government mandate, but by socioeconomic status. Generational wealth was stolen from so many. We drive by Smith Creek where many Black Americans hid. By November, the water is cold. They hid for days. A woman gave birth there, and descendants live today. WE NEED MORE EXPOSURE OF REAL AMERICAN HISTORY #thankyouPBS #thankyouDemocracyNow
Don't want to do that these idiots will start calling you woke
And Republicans want all history related to race out of classrooms.
Things have been hidden for years. America cant get ahead of life because they wont face the issues. We are suppose United,our government doe'snt look that way.😮
@@johndupont8628 I am woke. Let me tell you, it’s way better than being asleep!
Some people will label you as “woke” for just simply wanting more of our dark history exposed to the light!
This country will never get better until and after we have faced the demons in our past!
If you’ve ever wondered where did the january 6th coup came from, this is were. There are some people willing to burn their country to the ground rather than losing their grip on everything.
There country?These were racist immigrants..
Black Americans been here before all people..
That Africa lie was never true
We never got a chance to pull myself up by bootstraps every time we had a leg up they cut your legs off
This the one 💯
💯
Exactly- and the phrase “Pull yourselves up from your bootstraps” has been misread. It is literally impossible to pull yourself up while standing-boots or no boots. Wilmington is a beautiful and crazy place.
Indigenous Native Americans, look at those old census records and find the year they changed to black.
Well phucking said!!!
I was born in North Carolina in 1969. I attended primary, middle, high school, and college in North Carolina. I was stationed for a while at Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty) in the Army near Fayetteville, NC. I just learned about the Wilmington massacre in 2020. I had never heard of it. Was it during this time when America was "great?"
And Republicans want to take all race related history out of classrooms. Same as it ever was.
Great time refers to 1950's, prior to civil rights.
@@julieproctor6039that time wasn't great at all
That's because it was covered up and whitewashed!!!!!
Iol.... Just after their greatness era
You can start change by not calling it a "war". Its like saying mom and dad were in a fist fight when you know mom was totally defenseless against dad's blows.
Fact.
Please don't use the tired gender narratives. Women are seldom helpless. Women initate more domestic violence than men.
Reconciliation or not, these historic heinous acts have led to today's 1. Wealth disparity, 2. Policing disparity, 3. Housing disparities, 4. Health disparities, and 5. Educational disparities!
Reagan demorats. Tea party . Now called maggats
Rosewood, Black Wall Street,Wilmington I wonder how many more
There are so many, many, many more of these cities overthrown that got pushed under the rug, never to be discussed. With a little patience and research we can find out and expose the wrongs that have occurred.
Just look up Red Summer 1919 where they murdered and burned more than three dozen cities!
My family is from Wilmington NC and I am sicken still to this day. I believe my Grandmother's mother was among those murdered on that wretched day November 10, 1898.
@@dirkdillary4925 Thanks for the reminder of Red Summer 1919 which is among so many many, many of these injustices that kept occurring over and over again that some refer to as the United Snakes of AmeriKKKa. Wrong is wrong and right is right. Wilmington NC did not receive justice to this day and there is blood that has to be avenged.
The phrase of "liberty and justice for all" sounds like the biggest joke of all times.
@@deowil1 You are welcome for the reminder! ✊🏿
Born and raised in the Port City and I was never told/taught about this history. While sitting in the Airport in Wilmington in December of 1998, a white man from the North who taught at UNCW told me about this great atrocity.
This was a massacre (not a riot). I still feel that pain and grief that is has caused me from not knowing whether my grandmother's mother and other relatives that were among those murdered in the swamps/woods or in that town by the Gatling gun(s).
When crimes like this happen, it all explains why too many black families to this day are impoverished, and how they have been uprooted from what moral character they had but are now and clearly DYSFUNCTIONAL which is so hard to shake off. .My entire family is definitely owed reparations!!!
This!!!
By your logic, any white person that is killed by a black person, the white person's great grandchildren should get reparations to? Fair is fair right?
@@davidgoodman6924 What is actually sick is that you are justifying these foul takeovers of these towns. If Blacks had not been murdered and constantly attacked they would have far surpassed the white supremacists and the white supremacists being cowards were fully aware. Being that the white supremacists and those who share their ideology whether they have white skin or not are cowards they can only resort to violence because they are savages.
@@davidgoodman6924 Why did some Jews get reparations from the Holocaust and there are still organizations in place today to help Holocaust survivors? Only when the victims are Blacks reparations are not due but everyone else is entitled to reparations, which sounds really fair right?
@@davidgoodman6924 What about Jews during the Holocaust that sold out other Jews? That did not stop Jews from getting reparations. What about Jews that took part in the African slave trade? What about white on white crime? Also many people argue that African chiefs were tricked because the European concept of slavery and the African concept of slavery were different.
They never want black people to have anything! Some of this history was passed down in my family as “ They burned it down because they weren’t having it anymore.” I’m so interested in finding out the details and sharing it with my family.
@Mansa Mussa 🍀
We had these cities built before whites came to America. The immigrant who lived in trailers did this to us all over the country
Read Cape Fear Rising - great detailed historical fiction account based on what REALLY happened. 🪥☮️
It isn't theirs anyway! No matter what!
The more things change- the more they remain the same.
Things don't have to remain the same. Black people need to realize, no matter how high up we get, we need to be armed, trained, unified and willing to defend ourselves against violent white supremacy
There is absolutely no reconciIiation or forgiveness .without restorative justice and reparations.
Like nearly everyone in this comment section I have lived in Wilmington for 22 years and was NEVER taught this in school or elsewhere. This isn't even just an important local piece of history this is also the only successful Coup in this history of America. Absolutely shameful that this gets hidden from the public or watered down
I'm Indigenous Native American, live in Minnesota and I know. Maybe you don't know but the census changed Indigenous Native American to black.
Neither was i in school . To me i think it is intentionally done NOT to teach these important historical events just as i never told about black wall street massacre.
Red Shirts...........red hats
Exactly when they say we want only legal votes counted, they mean only white votes are legal
Wow u guys are right in opposite world lol. Look at what the dems did in Wilmington. The dems seperated Populists and reps by spreading racist hate so they could retain power which lasted for the next 100 yrs. They got this power off of a coup where after their dem racist tactics didnt kick out all the reps/populistthey wanted, they killed the rest and threaten the municipality. The dems tactics haven't changed. They still use race to divide and conquer. And you ppl have the balls to compare that to Reps!? Look at your party! Its always been your party. The party of slavery, jimcrow laws, lynching, and coups. The party responsible for the Wilmington insurrection is the dems, you idiots! And again the dems push their racist ideology by telling you black ppl are inferior, and you tools eat it up.
@@aikidoka00 stop the dems of that day are like the Republicans of today in the 1960's it flipped again your acting like the same democrats of today were exactly same back then no you can't go back 150 years put it like this you would've been a Democrat back then as simple as that....
@@johnlea29 oh Im sorry are reps exploiting blacks for their own political gain? No thats Dems..its always been Dems
@@aikidoka00 they do that on both sides but don't act like Republicans back in 1800's are the same ones now it flipped in the 60's and many blacks were forced to walk away because all they wanted was some respect that would be right after my grandfather came back from Korean War he went to steelmill worked and raised his family and here I am working in a steelmill but I believe you have to explain real history there was a time were blacks were loved and became office holders look at Wilmington 1898 its sad what they did to those people probably did whatever they wanted to smashing babies heads and laughing you gotta tell the truth it wasn't about cutting down cherry trees...
From top to bottom, American racism on full display. For those blacks today that argue America has been a work in progress and has shed its sin of slavery and racism through blood and turmoil, look at this, Greenwood in Tulsa in 1921, Rosewood in Florida, Atlanta in 1903, East St. Louis in 1919, and so on. The most important aspect of this story is how racism resurges, as we experience our "make America great again" period now.
Had no idea about this local piece of history. Very interesting thank you
It’s a national piece of history. If you think about it, the roles of the parties have reversed, today. And the same thing is going on. When one party wants to prevent people from voting, and takes power by preventing people from voting, history is repeating itself. And on a national level. 1898, meet 2012, 2016 and 2020. (P.S. I’m a native North Carolinian.) And oh, also. The white supremacy move,ent was funded by the “Secret Nine”. Nine rich guys who overturned an election and funded the whole thing. Frankly, you can’t make this shit up, eh?
you dont know it because it was hidden from history and the library's would not even release info about it im not sure what year it was released i think 1997
There are a lot more pieces of history that they do not teach or even acknowledge it has been subsequently whitewashed in HIs-Story. The would burn houses down and kill to destroy evidence. Many incidence were hardly publicized because of racism. Wilmington was a city that both black and white were living without conflict. The south was so racist and people want us to forget about the past? HELL NO! We did not do it, they did. America enslaved then oppressed people that were peaceful until you brought violence in our communities.
Now you expected today to be peaceful and wait until America owns its actions and stop lying and whitewashing its insidious history. "WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN AGAINST OPPRESSION THEN AND NOW"!
MARK LAWRENCE
I'm going to have to create a post, that REALLY TAKES THIS TO THE ROOT...
I'll be right back.... and hope you will as well...
@@marklawrence6176 BUT IN THE MEANTIME, MR MARK,...
STOP SAYING "AMERICA"... as it is most certainly NOT AMERICA causing all of this chaos and injustice...
----IT IS THE FEW----
-THE POWERS THAT BE-
---IT'S THE CORRUPT---
IT'S OUR GOVERNMENT❗️❗️❗️
Still happening today 2020.
Yep nothing's changed from that.
Democrats are still segregating us
You know it! SMH JESUS CHRIST
And now 2021 thanks to MAGA mob
@@blastrevino770 Did you happen to catch the part where he mentions those two parties switched?
Cant just say, "let's heal and move on" this has to be reconciled through reparations and restitution and it will be. Just not how we think its gonna happen.
So every white person that has been murdered by a black get reparations to?
@@davidgoodman6924 You obviously do not understand the gravity of these massacre's nor do you care. If you have the ability to do so, please go and find an incident of this magnitute that was committed by a group of armed black men. This acts are not simply murders, they are mass killings of innocent black men and women who wanted nothing but simply a normal life.
@@johnwilson45 Then name those mass killings. Lets talk about who commits the majority of violent crimes in the US now. Whoops
@@davidgoodman6924 A black person who murdered a white person is a crime. What occurred in the massacres of black citizens was white supremacists aided by the government to persecute and annihilate black citizens with murder and deprivation of human rights, this was no isolated crime.
They spit in our faces daily but god will bring
I live here and did not know about this . 😤
Of course, it's not your fault... They keep this kind of shit burried man.
@@gnomeking6568 100% they do try... I will not allow myself to be intimidated or manipulated outta voting.
Just like the rest of us.
Imagine the trauma. The survivors of these massacres rarely speak about it.
Bro downtown
what year did the libraries release this to the public earliest i can find was 1997
There are still lies being told between 1865 and 1877 Blacks held over 1500 offices and positions in city, state and Federal Government in the U.S.
Seriously neither did I and this is not the only time this happend as I am learning...I am very thankful for this recounting...seriously I was never taught any of this history in school or life...thank you for the presentation...this helps me to understand my country's actual racist past and the anger and frustration from our minorities a bit better thank you again no matter how sad and disgusting this is
And to add... how messed up our system is right now
Wow. Red shirts and Red Hats. This is the same thing that was going on during Trumps campaign. Almost verbatim. See, History unchecked will repeat itself.
And the fascists want to disallow this being taught in our schools.
I went to school in NC public schools from 1st grade to 12th. Why was I never taught this? This is what they should be teaching us! Not making us memorize speeches by MLK or Frederick Douglas.
We should have been taught this along with other Black History facts.
Well, You could have been working as a child and not had the blessing of going to school at all! What have you contributed to society that gives you any right to demand what teachers should or should not have taught you.
They teach you what they want you to know. By teaching you selected things and hiding other things or "massaging" the truth, they can control your thoughts, feelings and actions. If they taught you this and other things, then you might not act in their best interest. You would start to question, wonder and maybe even.... act.
@@shawnaweesner3759 this is the stupidest comment I've ever read
I read about Bacons Rebellion and was amazed that it’s not taught in schools. However, teaching such things would open poor whites eyes to see who their real enemy is. Hint: it ain’t people of color.
Make Wilmington great again...The city of Wilmington owes a lot to the descendants of the people affected...
Born and raised there and was never told about this history. While sitting in the Airport in Wilmington in December of 1998, a white man from the North who taught at UNCW told me about this great atrocity.
This massacre (not a riot) caused me a lot of pain, not knowing whether my grandmother's mother and other relative were among those murdered in those swamps or in that town by the Gatling gun(s). My entire family is definitely owed reparations.
@@deowil1 that man was not "white", he was Caucasian...lets make it a habit to call them what they are....white is a color and they are not white....✊🏽
@@jaybrown3341 PWOC people without color. Is what I've taken to calling them.
Remi, I like that! We call y'all "D.A.N.".
My mother family roots are more than 10 generations this story was never told. Wow
Thanks PBS for shedding light on this. McKinley turning a blind eye is disappointing. Surprised no one has told this story either in a movie or mini series. North Carolina still feels the affect of this coup 120 years later.
There’s a documentary on it called Wilmington on Fire. You can probably access it through UA-cam
@rgwebb5165 A contemporaneous novel about the coup was published in 1901. Charles Chesnutt, a black/mixed race author who was raised in Fayetteville, NC, and still had family and connections in the state when the Wilmington Massacre happened, wrote The Marrow of Tradition precisely to counter the white supremacist propaganda noted in the interview.
History is repeating itself again !
I always wanted to know more about black history growing up in nc. They talked about everything else but black people. And they NEVER talked about this.
And I grew up 40 minutes from this. I heard through word of mouth but not the specifics. Shame on the them.
Black history & civil rights ARE American history with roots going back before there even was a USA! It needs to be acknowledged & taught year round, not just 1 month out of 12.
This is why literature is important. I was waiting and hoping the author would mention Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel, The Marrow of Tradition, but seems like he's never heard of it. Chesnutt was a mixed race (he could pass) writer who lived in postwar Fayetteville, NC, for 16 years and still had family and connections in the state when the Wilmington Massacre happened in 1898. He wrote The Marrow of Tradition exactly to counter white supremacist propaganda that painted the coup as a "race riot" in which blacks were the aggressors, and whites had no choice but to subdue them violently. While Chesnutt's conjure stories were more popular than his novels, he was well-regarded enough that Marrow was reviewed in mainstream periodicals, including by the leading gatekeeper of American literature at the time, William Dean Howells.
Check out "Wilmington on Fire"
A well made documentary from someone Black living in Wilmington.
Thank you 👍
Just watched part 2 trailer followed by discussion with film maker and participants from the film. This history would not have been widely known if not for film maker Chris Everett 2015 documentary film Wilmington on fire.
Thanks
I think it'll be better when the Most High exacts his vengeance against Europeans who think they are free from this racial hatred.
There is no "most high" you dillussional fool! It's entirely up to US!
Don't forget the African Chieftains & Muslim-Arabic traders who sold Africans into slavery.
I'd certainly not expect white supremacists to join with the leftists, but that in no wise means conservatives want them either! There is 1 thing racists & marxists do have in common. Ala Lenin, they think we're all "useful idiots."
@@thegypsyman9043 is that supposed to be a defense?
@@bobbymoore8 Not so much a defense, just fact. Until we can handle that nothing will ever change. Does injustice, prejudice, & discrimination still exist in 21st century USA? Of course it does, but bitterness, hostility, & a constant "victim" mentality only keeps the same old tired song & dance playing! Sadly, too many of our black men/women are still their own worst enemy.
What really pisses me off why it took so long for this to reach the world ive never Heard anything about this and my family been here for decades
It happened in a lot more cities and states!
Allot Of Cities and State This Has Happened correct
January 6th, 2021. History just repeated itself.
It was attempted but did not succeed. Now we know how it happens now we know what needs to be done because we can learn from the past to create a different future.
Continue to fight for a unified legacy.
Everything was too close: the attempted coup, GA election, the general election... It's like getting biopsy results, right? Now we see the extent of disease and can work intentionally on the remedy.
Your guess as to which racist party caused this slaughter, and coup d’état will say a lot about you.
Far as I'm concerned every insurrectionist committed an act of treason and they should all be hung
Just to be clear the insurrection was caused by Democratics because they are the party of slavery and jim crow laws. They used the same tactics they use today, racism.
At the end, he squeezed in “they came to some kind of reconciliation” FALSE! A monument off a highway that no one sees is NOT reconciliation. Admitting it happened is NOT reconciliation. We have much work to do.
This has to be made in to a movie.🎥
I live in Wilmington and will buy this book!
It's about 1898 but it's really about today!!!! 🤔👀😉 Message pick it up ✌️
Historical novel by Charles W. Chestnut, The Marrow of Tradition. Great book written in the style popular in the early 1900’s. This book was one of the best I’ve read examining the personal lives of both black and white people in Wilmington.
Thanx
The Kenans were involved on this. Yep the same Kenans. The are on UNC Chapel Hill buildings and there football field. That is a fact.
Source? Or just or opinion? List the credible sources and which Kenans exactly. Hmmm??
Don't forget the trumped up scandal of the Wilmington 10 in 1971. Like the Central Park 5, Black people were jailed for years before appeals finally freed them.
What frightens me about today’s Wilmington is the gross “whitewashing” and colorism among immigrants. It boggles my mind when I saw a few Honduran immigrants dye their hair blond. It looks ridiculous, especially when you grow that crap out....
I am not a native of NC but am an American and have lived in the state for 40 years. I learned this disgraceful history of Wilmington from a book published in 1994 called "Cape Fear Rising."
We haven't reached anything still 2020
no shit
So TRUE!
Now its 2024 and its becoming a new reality again after thus last election
Same thing happened just now January 6th 2021
There been hundreds of black massacres across Anerica🥵
No reconciliation was reached.
These ppl never change for the better. Everything is about ruination, spoIiation, and fragiIity
I definitely agree with this statement
As I recall, there is a book titled "Last Battle of the Civil War" which describes a black community in FL being massacred in the same way you describe in Wilmington. This was in 1865.
This needs to be taught in All public schools in fact its said that 100s of African Americans were throw in the cape fear river I believe A LOT more lives were lost, extremely sad and the actual facts are it's still bad here in New Hanover county, I have only lived in Wilmington since September and Its a beautiful town but I hope that this is a lesson of hate and an outline on what can happen I PRAY ALL PEOPLE PULL TOGETHER AND FLUSH OUT THE HATE, Its LONG over due!!! Black lives Matter, ONE HUMANITY!!!!
This is why they (Republican state governments) dont want these events taught in schools because it will make the white children feel guilty.
White people don't want lessons or learning.
Similarities with the January 6, 2021 Trump insurrection is astounding. Read this book. A lot of lessons to be learned.
I studied this in Dutch history and it was just one of many Black Wall Streets "Mohrenstraße" that were taken out by Gov and racist citizens.
Originally Black communities was inhabited by Blacks (Mixed race people of color) mainly Indo-Europeans and not Anglo-Europeans.
This is another story like Black Wall Street, l didn’t hear of until l turned somewhat gray. How many more are out there? Nothing has changed. It’s getting worse.’This country will pay for its SINS!
It's the "red hats" nowdays.
The truth needs to be told even if it means changing our history books.
You have never heard the most famous person from that city, Wilmington, say anything about this. Michael Jordan.
I learned about this 56 years ago along with many other events like this that occurred from 1875-1930 in school from the book, "A Chronological History of the Negro In America" by Mort and Peter Bergman. This book was used in the Detroit and Chicago public school system.
Wow public school system? Thanks for the reference.
Well MJ justifies he's silence on social, civil and historical issues because whites buy his sneakers.
Why was this part of HISTORY SWEPT UNDER THE RUG???.This NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS SO WE ALL CANNOT FORGET THIS TRAGEDY IN THE USA 🇺🇸
A direct Replica of what had taken place Wednesday 6 January year 2021. Exact carbon copy!!! History repeats itself.
So this is my problem. When I have conversations with people over the years in regards to events such as this one, I get pushback when I say that there "ARE TWO Americas'. This proves it, as is has time and time again. Some people will never reconcile with the truth.
15:30 Edward William Brooke III was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate.
The TRUTH IS THE FACTUAL STORY
Its crazy because I went there for vacation im black and never knew this history
This should be taught in schools.
I need this book
The Marrow of Tradition was a historical fiction account of this event. Worth reading.
the year 1910 jack johnson became the first black heavyweight champ of the world. race riots occured throughout the country. in memphis and new orleans. just to name a coulple cities. a 9yr-old louis armstrong(who became a american music icon) recalled having to hide from the mob in the city of new orleans. history always repeats itself.
It’s repeated Because the lessons are not learned
These history remind me of what today republicans was trying to do, Trump was there leader!
Remember Democrats.....you still are the party of slavery 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@andrewderry5156 and now Republicans will be remembered as the party of white hooded persons, swastikas, various confederate banners and chants of white power.😆😂🤣😂😂🥲
@@andrewderry5156 there were Republican slave holders too numbskull
This today's MAGA.red shirts turned into red hats.
Watch when white supremacists overthrew a government
No it’s still the DEMONcrats. They just hide behind ideologies
You can try covering everyone with the same blanket but it still won't be truth! It was white democrat supremacist who protested against blacks in Wilmington! Blacks have continuously been trodden down by white democrats while telling them they're for them!
@@truthseeker1693 sure it's the white Democrats that are against black lives matter,voter suppression and have the full support of white supremacy!
Correction; the "red shirts" were all Democrats as well as racists.
Got tear gassed today. Oh, Wilmington. I’m feeling a certain way about continuing to live here.
Doesnt matter if you stay or leave... Another white person from out of state will move there and take your place.
Why?
@@gnomeking6568
What do You Mean by That 👀 ?
Brushstroke
GOD Bless You For Protesting Human Right issues 🙌🏼 🙏🏼💞👍🏼👏🏼
My husband is working in Wilmington this week. He and his crew, 5 of them stopped in at a restaurant. They were asked if they had reservations (which they did not) and was told it would be awhile. While waiting, many people came in and were seated. When he mentioned that none of those people were asked about reservations, they were asked to wait outside. He called to tell me about what happened. I told him about this story. I looked for a link to send to him and landed here. They stole the land and destroyed black families of course they wouldn't welcome you to eat alongside them.
Very good interview and history lesson. No thanks to Georgia public school history classes. Curriculum needs a revamp to real history, not white headlines.
Need this book?
This will never be taught in school
Teaching only good history that makes you feel great = propaganda. I’m a Tar Heel. They don’t teach this to this day. We must understand our history or are doomed to repeat it.
13:33 the bottom line. You are born in America you are American period.
No. You are an American citizen. You only become American when you racially integrate with the Indigenous people.
This sounds sounds so familiar to what is going on now.
I live in New York and it’s a segregated area. I feel very insecure now I see how the whites operate. I feel like a sitting duck.
Wow. History repeated itself on jan 6th. I never knew this History , I'm going to dive into History today and put the pieces of the puzzle together.
The peices of the puzzle will shock you. You will be stunned and horrified to see the ugly side of what has been allowed to happen to other humans, who were enslaved and hated for the color of their skin when you embark upon your journey into history.
To this day descendants of those same evil doers who got away with murder, rape and sodomy, theft and all other heinous crimes have profited and have done NOTHING to correct their wrongdoing. They have swept it under the rug and now the truth is coming out.
@@deowil1 What about the black African tribal chiefs that sold there own people to the white man, do they get a pass? What about the black American slave owners, do they get a pass? You all seem to forget about that tid bit of history huh.
Wow, who was killed? Oh thats right a unarmed woman. All were unarmed and let into the Capitol building on Jan 6th...hardly a insurrection!! 😂😂😂
@@davidgoodman6924 What about Jews during the Holocaust that sold out other Jews? That did not stop Jews from getting reparations. What about Jews that took part in the African slave trade? What about white on white crime? Also many people argue that African chiefs were tricked because the European concept of slavery and the African concept of slavery were different.
@@davidgoodman6924 So this is hidden history that was never told. But you have history that a white man wrote to say slaves sold in Africa by black Africans. I wonder if he may have left the real criminal out bcause it's his story like this story 🤔 Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏.
Make my blood boiled 😢
Having old white men discuss this, I find cathartic ....for some reason.
What if all black ppl moved to the same state.....nah nevermind lol.
I am 58 from Georgia and my Granny told us about this long time ago
... Big history buff here, American west, civil war, anything political and I first heard about this 4 days ago on Public televisions American Experience, this has been too well hidden, it was like watching the last 8 years but in black and white pictures and video...
There a way more cities this happened to.
Good coverage 👍🏽🙏🏽( the Bible says what’s done in the dark will be shown in the light) 🙏🏽🕊️😔✊🏽 prayers to the Ancestors Ase
This is what Donnie Moscow wants to return to, the 1890s.
Thanks
When was America Great Again
Those evil devils... they didn't want y'all to know about this history.
They have their own militia because they were part of the civil war veterans.
The first comment since Feb. 4....
Very interesting?
Exactly
Exactly
The word says "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows."
It is now time for this information and much more to be put into American history. American history is Black history it's the only history that we have with any pride! This country should truly be a different place build on hard work not the backs of slaves or the misery of Mass massacre.... this is not the only place that this kind of thing happened it happened in greenwood, Archer, pine and many other places
@@Professionaltalent
GOD is GOOD💯🎯💞👍🏼
Wow! American history does not cease to cause shock and shame! What a deplorable set of depraved humans! Indeed it was the base fellows and convicts who were extradited to the U.S. Many of them just had no human compassion or basic human decency.
Explains Todd Vasos CEO of Dollar General.
?
BUT WHY KILL INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS
Hatred and jealousy.
2024 history repeated itself
They were more than 60 there were hundreds of people why not tell the whole story 60 government workers councilman or whoever they were turn on even know the number of people that would kill because they didn't take the number of people but they think it was probably 2 to 300 people. When you give a little part 2 a stop making light of the death of hundreds of people makes me angry when you introduce it this way
Red shirts Red hats .. SAME BULLSHIT
Reconciliation???????????where, when 😮
The same thing now, nothing new under the sun 🌞.
no surpises here.......great research.....wow