Learn more about the 1898 Race Massacre and WILMINGTON'S LIE

Interactive Map and Photo Timeline of the Violence of 1898

These are incredible resources that offer fascinating visual elements to the events leading up to and the day of the massacre. Created and provided by the Cape Fear Museum and New Hanover County’s Library and Information Technology Department. Click here.

The Wilmington Race Riot Report by the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission

This extensive report, authored by principle research LaRae Umfleet, was published in 2006 by the Research Branch of the Office of Archives and History in the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Click here.

Archived copies of The Daily Record

Alexander Manly’s The Daily Record was the only daily Black newspaper in North Carolina until the printing press and the building that housed it was burned by a White mob at the beginning of the massacre on November 10,1898. The Third Person Project, a Wilmington-based group whose “work began with attempting to undo an act of historical erasure,” has made available two issues of the newspaper from 1895 and 1897 and five from 1898. Click here.

The News and Observer Corrects the Record on 1898

After the 2006 report by the 1898 Wilmington Race Commission, Raleigh’s News and Observer printed an historical correction in a 16-page series titled “The Ghosts of Wilmington: Wilmington’s Race Riot and the Rise of White Supremacy.” Click here.