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Join us as we continue to explore the theme of the 15th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium, "Undefeated: Black Resilience through Resistance, Creativity, and Cooperation," for a Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk with Dr. Lynn Wood Mollenauer, Dr. Tiffany Gilbert, and Dr. Cara Ward.

Forty years after the Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina was a uniquely integrated town with a Black majority population whose members held positions of social, economic, and political power. On November 10, 1898, a coalition of white supremacists deposed the biracial Fusionist government. Militia forces terrorized Black neighborhoods. The number of those murdered and displaced during the Wilmington Massacre and Coup, as it is now called, remains unknown—and unknowable—to this day. This Porch Talk centers on community responses to violence, loss, and dislocation. Lynn Mollenauer will focus on Alexander Huggins, a former slave and Union veteran, who founded an export business and remained in the city after 1898. Cara Ward will discuss her work with preservice teachers investigating the lasting impact of the coup. Tiffany Gilbert will reflect on post-1898 rage and its sublimation into expressions of performative community. Together, these papers interrogate the prismatic legacy and afterlife of the massacre.

Sponsored by: The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation

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setho2@wm.edu, Dr. Sarah Thomas

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