Wilmington on Fire

You are cordially invited to join the Pfau Library for a screening and discussion of "Wilmington on Fire," a documentary that chronicles the bloody assault on the prosperous African-American community in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 10, 1898.  

Before Rosewood, before Tulsa, there was Wilmington- a massacre kept secret for almost 100 years.

"Wilmington on Fire" chronicles the bloody assault on the prosperous African-American community in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 10, 1898. The attack, led by a cabal of white supremacists, killed dozens of African Americans and unseated the city's elected officials; it is considered the only successful municipal coup d'etat to occur on U.S soil. The massacre and coup galvanized the white supremacy movement and Jim Crow segregation throughout North Carolina and the American South.

Post screening discussion facilitated by A. Rafik Mohamed, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. 

Date:           February 25, 2020

Time:          Noon to 2 P.M.

Location:   PL-5005 (Library Multimedia Center)

Watch “When white supremacists overthrew a government,” an episode from the VOX series “Missing Chapter,” for a brief, well-researched overview of the “Wilmington Massacre.”  The short video features, among other scholars, Professor William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr., one of the nation’s preeminent economists, who serves as the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, where he also directs the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. 

For more information, contact Robie Madrigal, Pfau Library, at rmadriga@csusb.edu or 909.537.5104.