Publisher's Synopsis
On November 10, 1898, a mob of 400 rampages through the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing as many as 60 citizens, burning down the newspaper office, overthrowing the newly elected leaders, and installing a new white supremacist government. The Wilmington Race Riots - also known as the Wilmington Insurrection and the Wilmington Massacre - is the only coup d'etat on American soil. The violence was prompted by the increasing political powers African Americans in the town were gaining during Reconstruction. 'The Marrow of Tradition' is a fictionalised account of this important, under-studied event.
