DEMOCRACY BETRAYED

by Cecelski, David S.; Tyson, Timothy B.

• ISBN13: 9780807847558
• ISBN10: 0807847550
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of the campaign was the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898, which claimed the lives of many black residents and rolled back decades of progress for African Americans in the state. Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot, Democracy Betrayeddraws together the best new scholarship on the events of 1898 and their aftermath. Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy. The contributors are David S. Cecelski, William H. Chafe, Laura F. Edwards, Raymond Gavins, Glenda E. Gilmore, John Haley, Michael Honey, Stephen Kantrowitz, H. Leon Prather Sr., Timothy B. Tyson, LeeAnn Whites, and Richard Yarborough.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
We Have Taken a City: A Centennial Essay	p. 15
Abraham H. Galloway: Wilmington's Lost Prophet and the Rise of Black Radicalism in the American South	p. 43
Murder, Memory, and the Flight of the Incubus	p. 73
The Two Faces of Domination in North Carolina, 1800-1898	p. 95
Captives of Wilmington: The Riot and Historical Memories of Political Conflict, 1865-1898	p. 113
Love, Hate, Rape, Lynching: Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Gender Politics of Racial Violence	p. 143
Class, Race, and Power in the New South: Racial Violence and the Delusions of White Supremacy	p. 163
Fear, Hope, and Struggle: Recasting Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow	p. 185
Race, Rhetoric, and Revolution	p. 207
Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism: The Wilmington Riot in Two Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels	p. 225
Wars for Democracy: African American Militancy and Interracial Violence in North Carolina during World War II	p. 253
Epilogue from Greensboro, North Carolina: Race and the Possibilities of American Democracy	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 287
Contributors	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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