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  • Panel: N.C. Should Pay for 1898 Race Riot (Dems Disenfranchise Blacks!)

    06/01/2006 7:20:53 AM PDT · by Mr. Brightside · 47 replies · 1,234+ views
    AP ^ | 6/3/06
    Today: June 01, 2006 at 7:11:2 PDT Panel: N.C. Should Pay for 1898 Race Riot By MIKE BAKER ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington. The 500-page report that was produced after six years of study also said the violence, which killed as many as 60 people, was not a spontaneous riot but rather the nation's only recorded coup d'etat. "There is no amount of money that can repair what happened years ago and...