A Black Voting Rights Activist Confronts the Ghosts of Racial Terror in North Carolina - Word&Way

A Black Voting Rights Activist Confronts the Ghosts of Racial Terror in North Carolina

On Nov. 10, 1898, two days after a contentious election, armed white supremacists stormed Wilmington. The mobs massacred dozens of African Americans — the true number will never be known — dumping their limp bodies in the winding Cape Fear River. More than 120 years later, a Black voting rights activist wondered whether she was witnessing a revival of that dark time.

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