@unbrokenlegacy1: Voter's Made History ✊🔥🇺🇸 On the tenth of November, 1898, a mob in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrew an elected government. Not in a war. In America. And it worked. Wilmington was the biggest city in the state, and most of its people were Black. Black men held real power, including three of the ten aldermen, and they won it beside white allies in a coalition called Fusion. White supremacist leaders called it "Negro rule" and ran a campaign of lies. Alfred Waddell, a former Confederate officer, told a crowd, if necessary, to choke the Cape Fear River with carcasses. Two days after the election, hundreds of white men gathered at the armory, and by the march there were about 2,000. They burned the Black newspaper's office and the killing began. The coroner counted 14 dead, the state's own report says as many as 60, and others say hundreds. About 2,100 people left the city. The mob forced the mayor and council to resign, and Waddell took the mayor's seat. Then came the grandfather clause and literacy tests. In North Carolina, registered Black voters fell from 126,000 to 6,100 in six years. Wilmington did not elect another Black official until 1972. In 2026, Americans voted again. Projected winners included Keisha Lance Bottoms as Georgia's first Black woman governor, Deb Haaland as the first Native American woman governor, Gina Hinojosa as Texas's first Latina governor, Xavier Becerra as California's first Latino governor, Abdul El-Sayed as the first Muslim senator and Peggy Flanagan as the first Native American woman elected to the Senate. They stole the vote from Black Americans for generations. But they could not stop them from fighting to win it back. Follow @UnbrokenLegacy. #wilmington1898 #BlackHistory #votingrights #americanhistory #midterms

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