From the Wilmington Star-News:
"White supremacists used violence and intimidation to chase away black leaders.
"The N.C. Democratic Party issued a formal apology Saturday for its role in the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, the only documented government overthrow in this country, in which dozens of blacks were massacred.
"At that time, white supremacists used violence and intimidation to chase black leaders and white allies from office and the community.
"The Democratic Party's executive committee, made up of more than 700 leaders and activists from all 100 counties, drafted a resolution outlining the apology which acknowledges the party 'engineered and executed a statewide white supremacy campaign in order to win the 1900 elections that was vicious, polarizing and defamatory toward African-Americans and that encouraged racial violence.' ..."
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