About This Lesson
Essential Question: WAS RECONSTRUCTION A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE?
Objective: To have students analyze and evaluate the historical reassessment of the Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Citations:
Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
RECOMMENDATIONS OF 1898 WILMINGTON RACE RIOT REPORT:
http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/1898-wrrc/report/front-matter.pdf
Additional Resources:
- James Loewen, "'Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy' (review)", Southern Cultures, Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 2000, pp. 90-93 | 10.1353/scu.2000.0058, accessed 30 July 2014
- "Black Pathology Crowdsourced: Why we need historians in debates about today's cultures", Atlantic Online, 4 April 2014
- "How The Only Coup D'Etat In U.S. History Unfolded", NPR, 17 August 2008
- Film: Wilmington On Fire (2016) Christopher Everett (North Carolina Black Film Festival)
