Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, and Eisenman, a visiting professor at the School of Architecture, have been awarded the Gold Medals for History and Architecture, respectively. Uncovering the truth about the 1898 massacre of black voters in Wilmington, North Carolina. At huge rallies Waddell transformed Simmons’s two-hundred-page handbook of white supremacy methods and electoral strategies into rousing oratory that had working-class white men on their feet with their Winchester rifles held high. Registration is required. August was too early. Yet North Carolina was an exception in many ways among former Confederate states. When it came to race and sex in the South, speech was not free. The Democrats of 1898 in North Carolina had the same aims, and some of the same methods, as today’s Republican vote suppressors, scheming and spending millions of dollars to thwart the right to vote with specious claims about “voter fraud.”, Wilmington’s bleak story of voter suppression stems from a tale of two Reconstructions. In a pandemic of unending and frightful consequences, mismanaged from high places with astonishing political venality, and in a new age of voter suppression buffeted by widespread protests against systemic racism, we need these lessons more than ever. This online event is part of the Martha’s Vineyard Author Series. A Reverend James Kramer delivered a sermon on the Sunday after the coup in which he held that “God from the beginning of time intended that intelligent white men should lead the people and rule the country.” In the violence, Kramer contended, “the negro was the aggressor. David Kevin Blight David Kevin Blight 29, of Harrison Township, passed away unexpectedly Friday, April 17, 2020. The event is free and open to the public. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. What happened in Wilmington has long been a highly debated problem in historical memory, with the facts obscured for generations by the coup’s perpetrators and their apologists. A hastily conducted coroner’s jury concluded that no one could be prosecuted for the killings of November 10 because “the said deceased came to their deaths by gunshot wounds inflicted by some person or persons to this jury unknown.” The truth was whatever the coup leaders said it was. David Blight will be the speaker for the Literary Society of the Southwest Author Luncheon Series in January 2020. But the coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, in November 1898 may deserve first place in this nineteenth-century gallery of horrors. David Zucchino’s engaging and disturbing book, Wilmington’s Lie, not only vividly reconstructs the events of 1898 but reveals the mountain of lies that has stood in the way of a truer, if not a reconciled, history. The event will be held at the Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. This event, sponsored by R.J. Julia Independent Bookseller, will be held at Digital Surgeons, District Co-Work Space, 470 James Street, Suite 1, New Haven, CT 06513, Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at 7:00pm. Andrew Delbanco’s ‘The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War’, The life of Ulysses S. Grant, a nobody who became almost everything, David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale. David Kevin Blight 29, of Harrison Township, passed away unexpectedly Friday, April 17, 2020. After coup leaders forced resignations from the mayor, police chief, and board of aldermen, Waddell was declared the new mayor. 4 talking about this. Her viewing of several killings prompted this recollection: The whole thing was with the object of striking terror to the man’s heart, so that he would never vote again. For more information about the event: https://www.themusichall.org/events/david-blight/. David Blight, along with Dr. Jay M. Winter and Dr. Patricia C. Pongracz, will take part in The Richard H. Driehaus Museum's Signature Series “Tiffany Memorials: The Visual Language of Remembrance.” The event will be held at the Driehaus Museum, 40 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 on Saturday, February 22, at 2:00pm. For more information: http://salemathenaeum.net/event/adams-lecture-david-blight/?instance_id=11551. His explanation of the election of 1876 as an end of Reconstruction is a bit simplistic. In 1871 white mobs in Meridian, Mississippi, killed approximately thirty blacks in political violence that first broke out during a court trial. For more information: http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/2col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=7487&cid=14359&ecid=14359&crid=0&calpgid=1050&calcid=2086. On Sunday, November 22nd at 12:00pm, David Blight will discuss his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” with host William Roka live, followed by a Q&A with home audiences. A wave of disfranchisement and other Jim Crow laws flowed from the state legislature. David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018) at the Yale Club of Washington, DC, on Friday, February 28, 2020. Valeria Luiselli. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. 1. Yale historian David Blight and architect Peter Eisenman are among four individuals to receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest honors for excellence in the arts. The Wilmington city school district spent $858 a year per school for whites and $523 per black school. David Blight was appointed to the Board of Lifestyle Communities Limited as a Non-Executive Director on 15 June 2018. For more information call 205-328-9696 or visit: https://www.bcri.org/. On the morning of November 10, a mob of more than five hundred white men, led by Waddell, gathered at the armory. For more information: http://www.charlestontocharleston.com/schedule/2019/11/9/prophet-of-freedom. For more information: https://services.nycbar.org/Members/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=SEN121019&WebsiteKey=f71e12f3-524e-4f8c-a5f7-0d16ce7b3314. He is currently … Manly left the state, part of a black exodus from North Carolina. David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," talks with Rochelle Riley at … “A black man had mocked the myths that had sustained whites for generations, piercing the buried insecurities of Southern white men.” By challenging Felton in print, Manly endangered his life and livelihood as well as the marriage and family he had anticipated. He was born June 10, 1990, in Mount Clemens, the son of Richard Blight and Agnese (Cervini) Raffaelli. (November 2020), For more on the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to suppress the black vote during the Reconstruction era, see Scott Farris, Freedom on Trial: The First Post–Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression (Globe Pequot/Lyons, 2020). ↩, Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. In Washington, D.C., only months after the massacres, Manly came out of hiding to lobby President William McKinley (a Republican) for federal intervention in Wilmington. Gaines Foster and David Blight: Two Views on the Lost Cause Posted on June 15, 2020 by Sean Michael Chick In 1961 the nation celebrated the centennial of the American Civil War with a glorification of battlefield heroics entwined within a narrative of a nation reforged in the fires of war. As Zucchino puts it: Well before the close of Reconstruction in 1877, the vengeance of the Redeemers had essentially suspended the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in North Carolina. I believe that the whites were doing God’s services.” Another minister, Reverend Peyton Hoge, who had himself carried a rifle during the violence, said Wilmington had been, like Jerusalem, “redeemed for civilization, redeemed for law and order, redeemed for decency and respectability.”. David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018) at the National Cathedral in Washington DC on Thursday, January 30, 2020. He denounced Felton and all her accomplices as “a lot of carping hypocrites” and did not pull a single punch. But we see him much more as a giant, unwavering in his conviction in the demonic quality of slavery and the need to respect the dignity of every human being, regardless of color. He was born June 10, 1990, in Mount Clemens, the son of Richard Blight and Agnese (Cervini) Raffaelli. 9/29 The Importance of Frederick Douglass and the Reconstruction Era w/ David Blight. For more information and to register for the event: crowdcast.io/e/mvasblm/register. David Blight. One involved the experience of defeated white Confederates and their sons and daughters; the other rested in the achievement of civil and political rights for emancipated black North Carolinians. They were Josephus Daniels, a viciously racist and talented propagandist who owned and edited the Raleigh News & Observer; Furnifold Simmons, the chair of the state Democratic Party and the organizational mastermind of the coup’s operations; and Alfred Moore Waddell, a former Confederate officer, congressman, and popular orator. September 29, 2020 . Experts discuss the revolutionary and evolutionary nature of the Douglass-Lincoln relationship, For more information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/frederick-douglass-abraham-lincoln-and-emancipation. The conversation will take place at the New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024 on Saturday, January 11 from 9:30am to 11:00am. David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018) for the New York City Bar Association’s Public Affairs Luncheon Series, on December 10, 2019, at 12:00pm. November 19, 2020. 1 K J’aime. He appears in public and media to discuss slavery and emancipation in US history. While Simmons built alliances and Daniels kept up a drumbeat of virulently racist cartoons and editorials full of misinformation throughout the run-up to the election of November 8, 1898, Waddell was the rhetorician of this movement. For more information: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/david-blight-frederick-douglass/. For more information: https://bostonbookfest.org/festival/presenters/. For more information: https://www.destinationgettysburg.com/event/details/14313. When Furnifold Simmons read Manly’s editorial, Zucchino writes, “he believed Manly had handed whites a perfectly valid pretext to lynch him and torch his newspaper.” But Simmons and his team of plotters resisted screams for Manly’s immediate lynching: Simmons recognized the value of timing white outrage for maximum political impact. These kinds of lies, as we have learned in our own historical moment, are the particular stock-in-trade of demagogues who believe their power is unchecked, or who dissemble them before and after their acts of suppression. Amid parades and bands playing “Dixie,” a narrative of victory poured forth from press and pulpit. For more information: https://sites.udel.edu/lincolnclub/calendar/ or call 302-655-6171. David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. Simmons advised the city’s white elite—planters, politicians, lawyers, and merchants—to suppress the explosion of white rage until closer to Election Day. Modern technology had arrived in Wilmington, but the first telephones and electric trolleys were not shared between black and white neighborhoods. In August 1897 he wrote a column about race, sex, and lynching after a group of black Baptist ministers near Raleigh published a statement that condemned lynching but also, according to Zucchino, “accepted the entrenched white supremacist principle that no sexual union between a black man and a white woman could possibly be consensual.” Manly attacked them without reserve, reminding the clergy that white men had for generations raped black women without consequences, and arguing that laws punishing rape should apply equally to blacks and whites. Zucchino’s writing is crisp and declarative. He will give a lecture for the Valley Chapter Luncheon in Phoenix, AZ on Tuesday, January 7; the Pinnacle Peak Chapter Luncheon in Scottsdale, AZ on Wednesday, January 8; the Tucson Chapter Luncheon in Tucson, AZ on Thursday, January 9; and the Camelback Chapter Luncheon in Phoenix, AZ on Friday, January 10, 2020. David Blight will give this year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture. Dozens of African-Americans were killed and black political life in the area was snuffed out in a matter of days: 126,000 black men were on the voter rolls of North Carolina in 1896; by 1902, only 6,100 remained. With arsenals of guns, big and small, the campaign declared its aims overtly; as a Simmons deputy put it with precision, “We must either outcheat, outcount or outshoot them!” They accomplished all three ambitions. Whenever he has been civilized by white men and then left to himself, he has invariably reverted to a condition of savagery…. Nathan Whitlock. For more information: https://www.umw.edu/greatlives/lecture/frederick-douglass/. The event is free and open to the public but pre-registration required. Most black children attended school only through sixth grade, whites through twelfth. There was also the threat that, as Zucchino puts it, “a black man who could vote or hold public office was a man who might…become a rival for the affections of white women.”3. David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018) at the University of Mary Washington, 1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401, on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 7:30pm. All Contents. By David W. Blight. David Paul Blight serves as Non-Executive Director of the Company. In the summer of 1898, with Daniels raving in Raleigh about an “incubus” of black rapists that “must be removed,” the pro-lynching activist Rebecca Latimer Felton, the wife of a Georgia congressman, weighed in with a widely publicized speech about “poor white girls on…secluded farms” preyed upon by black farmhand rapists. And if he refuses, kill him! By David W. Blight. For more information: https://librarycompany.org/288-annual-dinner/. Alan Mikhail. News about upcoming issues, contributors, special events, online features, and more. The successful destruction of Wilmington’s black community and the political decapitation of its leadership is the essential tragedy of the coup. The Democratic city clerk dutifully kept the “minutes” of the coup itself, a banality of evil conducted without the slightest sense of irony. For more information: https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/talk-with-david-w-blight-pulitzer-prizewinning-author-of-frederick-douglass-prophet-of-freedom/002575-0819. The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India. when in fact many of those who have thus been dealt with had white men for their fathers, and were not only “black” and “burly” but were sufficiently attractive for white girls of culture and refinement to fall in love with them as is very well known to all. For more information: http://westportlibrary.org/event/pulitzer-prize-winner-david-blight/. The event is located at the Association’s historic building located at 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. David Blight will give the 2019 Salem Athenaeum Adams Lecture. Estimates vary as to how many people were murdered. In his Record Manly tried to stand firm while some blacks begged him to apologize. The preamble to this document carried the grandiose title “Wilmington Declaration of Independence.” One resolution boldly announced that blacks would be treated “with justice and consideration” as long as they obeyed “the intelligent and progressive portion of the community.”. But Zucchino is a marvelous writer. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, A mob of white men posing in front of the office of the black-owned Daily Record newspaper after burning it down, Wilmington, North Carolina, November 10, 1898. Thanks to David Zucchino and the scholars, journalists, and activists before him, the coup has surged from the periphery to near the center of our national story, although today’s Republican vote suppressors have either ignored it or simply do not care to look into this historical mirror. Laura Engelstein. Save 50% off the regular rate and 75% off the cover price and receive a free 2021 calendar! Zucchino is at his best as he builds the historical infrastructure of lies from which the story of Wilmington emerged. For more information: http://driehausmuseum.org/programs/detail/signature-series-tiffany-memorials-the-visual-language-of-remembrance2. Manuel Barcia (Chair of Global History, University of Leeds) 10:00—11:15am KEYNOTE ADDRESS & discussion: Ada Ferrer (Julius Silver Professor of History … Last updated: 1 November 2020 at 11:00am EST. Frederick Douglass started life as Fred Bailey, an enslaved person. There may have been up to sixty bodies, found all across town, many shot in the back, some humiliated first on their knees, some dying near or fleeing from their homes. David W. Blight is director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University and the Class of 1954 Professor of American History. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Fre… The three of them together were exceptional opportunists with fierce political ambitions. The population of Wilmington all lived within the bitter restrictions of segregation. He voiced a ferocious brand of paternalistic racism. David Blight will give a lecture, as part of the Lincoln Club of Delaware’s Annual Dinner to celebrate the birthday of America’s 16th president. This event will be held at The Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church Street Charleston, SC, 29401 on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at 4:00pm. Last year, in an essay about the pogrom against the Jewish population of Kishinev in 1903, the philosopher Avishai Margalit argued that some instances of mass violence become symbolic because they have received lasting representation in art—for example, Guernica, Picasso’s 1937 painting protesting the fascists’ bombing of civilians in Spain; The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel’s 1933 novel about the Turkish genocide against the Armenians; or “Babi Yar,” Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem about the massacre in Kiev in 1941.4 To that list Americans might add poems, songs, and novels about lynching. Political violence, especially around elections, has a long history in the United States. David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018) at A.H. Parker High School, 400 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr. Both events are part of the Boston Book Festival and will be held at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116. They believed in fixed racial traits and spread the idea that black Americans had somehow degenerated into dangerous behavior since liberation from slavery, manifested in aggression, especially sexual assaults on white women. July 3, 2020; In 2006, the historian David Blight had just given a talk about Frederick Douglass in Savannah, Ga., when he was introduced to Walter Evans, a retired surgeon and collector. All those in America who do not understand the old and festering foundation of contemporary voter suppression should read this book. June 09, 2020. For more information: https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/events/site/527/32645570198919/gary-b-cohen-distinguished-lectureship-in-history-with-david-w-b/. If a race conflict occurs in North Carolina, the very first men that ought to be held to account are the white leaders of the Negroes! David Blight will discuss his book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster, October 2018), in Hartford, CT. De facto Jim Crow quietly sauntered into town before his de jure big brothers loudly took over. Time TBD. Nearly a thousand white men gathered that morning inside the courthouse “to set in motion,” Zucchino writes, “the long-standing plan to overthrow the city government…and ensure that black men never again held office in Wilmington.” Zucchino quotes a Washington Post correspondent marveling at the “candor” of the leaders, who acted with the “stateliness of a Greek tragedy.” With Red Shirts ready to thwart a supposed “black insurgency” that never occurred, Waddell called in a jerry-rigged committee of black men to accept seven Orwellian “resolutions” of surrender. He liked … For more information: https://www.yaleclubdc.org/event-calendar. David Blight with Mick Kidd. This event is free. Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in gerrymandered black precincts and destroyed Republican ballots while white men, as Zucchino puts it, “accosted blacks at gunpoint in some wards, forcing them to turn back as they tried to reach polling stations.” In white neighborhoods, rumors spread of black violence—rumors that Zucchino states were “pure fiction”: “Virtually all the armed men who remained on the streets throughout the night were white, not black.”, Newspaper headlines the following day announced the Democrats’ victory: “Our State Redeemed—Negroism Defunct,” said the Wilmington Messenger; “White Supremacy Receives a Vote of Confidence,” wrote the Raleigh News & Observer. Guests: David Blight, professor of history, African American studies and American studies and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. David Blight will be the speaker for the Literary Society of the Southwest Author Luncheon Series in January 2020. The lecture, sponsored by Boston University Alumni Association, will be held at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215, on December 2, 2019, at 7:00pm. With the help of thousands of “Red Shirts”—bands of heavily armed men adept at intimidation and ready to kill—they sought the liquidation of black men from political life and the overthrow of the state of North Carolina. David Blight will give the 2019 Annual James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture at the University of Glasgow on Tuesday, October 15th at 5:30pm. Soon men from the mob began to fire their guns throughout the neighborhood. David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale. David Blight will give a lecture, as part of the Library Company of Philadelphia’s 288th Annual Dinner, on Tuesday, October 29, 2019. The lecture will be held in Mara Auditorium, at Gettysburg College, 300 North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325, on November 11, 2019, at 7:00pm. 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