Primary Source

The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina

The News and Observer via DigitalNC

This cartoon features a group of white men and women who appear terrorized by a Black man represented as a vampire who is swiping at the much smaller white people with long claws\. — Racist editorial cartoon commissioned for the News and Observer, September 27, 1898.

Source: Norman Ethre Jennett, the News and Observer.

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Lesson Plan

Stolen Power: The Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898

This lesson explores the Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898 by examining the events and political environment leading up to and the people and groups involved in the massacre and coup.