Teaching Resources

Books

• A Day of Blood by LeRae Umfleet

• Wilmington’s Lie by David Zucchino

• We Have Taken a City by Leon Prather

• Race, Place, and Memory by Meg Mulrooney
  

Articles and Other News Media

• ABC News Piece on 1898 (February 2024)

• Ghosts of 1898 (News and Observer 2006, Tim Tyson)

• Commemorating Wilmington’s Racial Violence of 1898 (McLaurin)

• The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 (Equal Justice Initiative)

• A War in Black and White - Cartoons of Norman Ethre Jennett (Williams)
  

Films/Documentaries

• American Coup

• When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government
  

Brief Summaries for K-12 Students

• NCPedia

• Zinn Education

• Britannica Online
  

Primary Sources

• NCpedia 1898 and White Supremacy

• The Election of 1898 in North Carolina (UNC Chapel Hill Collection)

• Politics of a Massacre (East Carolina University Collection)

• UNCW Library Guide for The Wilmington Coup D’Etat of 1898

• Textbook Accounts of the Coup and Massacre spanning 1901-2020

• 1898 Political Cartoons
  

Other Literature

• The Marrow of Tradition by Charles Chesnutt

• Crow by Barbara Wright (Reading Guide by Carolina K-12)

• Cape Fear Rising by Philip Gerard
  

Podcasts and Audio Interviews

• WHQR Interview with Cynthia Brown on Legacy of 1898 (interview and podcast episode)

• Criminal Podcast Episode featuring Cynthia Brown

• WHQR Coastline Interview
  

Teaching Articles and Guides

• Teaching 1898 Using a History Lab (Ward and Buchanan)

• Carolina K-12 Teaching Guide