Wilmington massacre

I know a little bit about history.

And the thing that keeps coming to mind for me is Reconstruction, the death of Reconstruction, like right around the time when the Wilmington Massacre happened.

Well, in fairness, I wrote a book called The Death of Reconstruction.

So you and I agree on that.

Known for her kindness, Evans was raised in dire circumstances.

She was born in eighteen ninety-two, just a few years before the Wilmington Massacre, when a group of white supremacists terrorized the city.

They burned down the building of the Daily Record, a Black-owned newspaper, killed dozens of Black residents, and violently took over the city government.

Evans definitely would have been conscious of the massacre, the Wilmington Massacre that took place in, I believe it was eighteen ninety-eight.

That's Alexandra Adams, a curatorial assistant here at MoMA.

She would have been a little girl at the time, but stories of the massacre would have been told...

The closest city to my area is Wilmington, North Carolina.

And I grew up in this area all of my childhood, never knowing anything about the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. where this you know the city of wilmington was you know um a uh african-american-run city pretty much uh officials um senators you know ran had a newspaper and 300 black folks was murdered and massacred and thrown in the river you know the cape field river so um what i learned of all this you know is just started making me really dig deep and look at some things and how things transpired in my Special Forces career.

And right to today, it's a lot of friends that I shared a lot with.

And I remember guys doing things to me.