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@wdlindsy@toad.social"For millions of students passing through North Carolina’s public schools, learning from textbooks that never mentioned the deadly 1898 coup d’etat in their state, it was as though that event never happened. 'I took several courses on North Carolina history throughout my middle school and high school career,' Dr. Crystal Sanders, today a history professor at Emory University, told American Experience."
~ Kirstin Butler
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-coup-how-cover-coup/
“'And I never recall hearing about the Wilmington Insurrection.' ...
'The story of the Wilmington coup is so important for American history,' said Carol Anderson, Sanders’s academic colleague at Emory University.'"
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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"'We have to understand the conditions that allowed a duly elected government to be overthrown in a democracy. The only way that we can deal with this is not to slough it off as "this is not who we are, this is not what we do," but is to understand, "yes, we did this. And that we will never do this again.’”
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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As the Wilmington story tells us, coups are part and parcel of US history — particular white supremacist ones. And the story also tells us that history can be erased by those intent on covering up what they've done, intent on disappearing the people they have trodden down.
As in the past, so in the present….
Yes, this is absolutely who we are.
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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Truth hurts sometimes. But no one can truly stand tall without facing it.
@wdlindsy TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre was part of a pattern! I need to slowly go through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
@akkartik Yes, a longstanding pattern. There was the pattern of the Red Shirts in South Carolina terrorizing Black voters and driving them from the state. There was the pattern of white uprisings in northwest Louisiana (Colfax and Coushatta, where my father was born) to target Black citizens who dared to vote and terrorize Reconstruction leaders and drive them from the state. There's a lot of history that has been ignored or forgotten about that's part of this large pattern.
"In the early 20th century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), United Confederate Veterans, and Sons of Confederate Veterans banded together, installing their members on state textbook commissions, aggressively pursuing book bans, and persecuting teachers who deviated from the groups’ white supremacist positions. In 1905 the UDC president was clear about the group’s pedagogical goals. “It has ever been the cherished purpose of the Daughters of the Confederacy to secure greater educational opportunities for Confederate children, and by thorough training of their powers of mind, heart and hand, render it possible for these representatives of our Southern race to retain for that race its supremacy in its own land.”
@melanie Yes, the UDC is central to this story. This was in the same period in which the UDC was erecting pro-Confederate monuments as far north as Montreal, whitewashing the history of the Confederacy, its rebellion and its defense of slavery and willingness to divide the nation to keep slavery alive.
Although they've gone underground, some of these confederate groups are still in operation. There is one in Long Beach, Ca.
@wdlindsy Wow, I love history and I will now look to learn a little about #NorthCarolina #History
@sergiodomeyko There's always so much more to learn about history, isn't there? And in the case of US history, so much has been sanitized, ignored, prettified.
@wdlindsy Damn, I myself was one of those NC students. My textbooks weren't bad on the whole: they admitted the Civil War was over slavery, mentioned Crispus Attucks as a heroic figure, and so on. But I was today years old when I heard about the Wilmington insurrection.
Also from NC, I didn't learn of the Wilmington massacre until years after I left the South. Middle-school and HS textbooks in my day were not so racist as in earlier times, but did not mention lynchings and massacres, as far as I remember.
In the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle, we had good teachers who gave us much info that was not in the books.
But it was years later, when I began to read about Jim Crow, racist massacres, etc., as well as the Civil War.