Nearly 125 years later, the wounds of Wilmington's 1898 coup still run deep, with many residents saying the city never made amends for the tragedy.
"The violence in Wilmington became an example to other locations of how to have a riot and get away with killing people in the street based on race," LeRae Umfleet, a lead researcheron the coup, told ABC News.
Brown said she recalls going to the public library after school with a friend to try and learn more about what happened. The library refused to show them any records even though they were stored there, Brown said. "The students who go to the schools in the primarily Black areas of the town, their scores on education are worse. Their access to healthcare is worse, there's no grocery store in the area," she said., a study that looks at the inclusivity of the economy in the Cape Fear region where Wilmington is located, found that 30 percent of Black residents fall below the federal poverty line compared to 11.9 percent of White residents.
"The wound hasn't healed," she said. "I've been calling for a truth and reconciliation process in Wilmington for years that has fallen on deaf ears."As the 125th anniversary of the incident approaches, Wilmington residents are calling on the North Carolina legislature to hold true to the recommendations made in the 2006 report on the incident. The residents feel like nothing has been done beyond a grassroots level.
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