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The wilmington massacre/Insurrection of 1898 was a carefully orchestrated coup which overthrew a biracial government It was a white supremacists campaign to strip black citizens of the right to vote & remove them from public office. Over 100 black citizens were murdered. —On Nov. 10, 1898, white supremacists murdered African Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina and deposed the elected Reconstruction era government in a coup d’etat. It was the morning of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the fire was the beginning of an assault that took place seven blocks east of the Cape Fear River, about 10 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. By sundown, [Alex] Manly’s newspaper [The Daily Record] had been torched, as many as 60 people had been murdered, and the local government that was elected two days prior had been overthrown and replaced by white supremacists. For all the violent moments in United States history, the mob’s gruesome attack was unique: It was the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil. 🖋️if you love our content though sometimes disturbing/triggering, please consider supporting our page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

After I was shot, I had to relearn how to talk one word at a time. Today, I still struggle to speak but I have not lost my voice—and I’m using it to urge all Americans to vote for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz tomorrow.

Make Good Trouble - #VoteKamala

Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone was the first Black, female millionaire with a reported $14 million in assets, generated from her beauty and cosmetics company in 1920. She employed Madame C.J Walker! Annie Malone was a chemist entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator and lived up until the grand age of 87. In the 1900s, Annie moved with her older siblings to Lovejoy, (now known as Brooklyn, Illinois.) While experimenting with hair and different hair-care products, she developed and manufactured her own line of non-damaging hair straighteners, special oils, and hair-stimulant products for black women. She named her new product “Wonderful Hair Grower”. To promote her new product, Turnbo sold the Wonderful Hair Grower door-to-door. Her products and sales began to revolutionize hair-care methods for all Black Americans. In 1902, Turnbo moved to a thriving St. Louis, where she and three employees sold her hair-care products door-to-door. As part of her marketing, she gave away free treatments to attract more customers. Due to the high demand for her product in St. Louis, she opened her first shop in 1902 at 2223 Market Street. She also launched a wide advertising campaign in the black press, held news conferences, toured many southern states, and recruited many women whom she trained to sell her products. One of her selling agents, Sarah Breedlove Davis, later known as Madam C. J. Walker, operated first in St. Louis and later in Denver, Colorado, until a disagreement led Walker to leave the company. Walker allegedly took the original Poro formula and created her own brand of it (this is disputed). This development was one of the reasons which led then Turnbo to copyright her products under the name "Poro" because of what she called fraudulent imitations and to discourage counterfeit versions. Poro may have received this name from a Mende word for devotional society or it may be a combination of the married names of Annie Pope and her sister Laura Roberts. Due to the growth in her business, in 1910 Turnbo moved to a larger facility on 3100 Pine Street. n 1917, Malone opened the Poro College in St. Louis, the first institution devoted to the study and teaching of black cosmetology. The school had over 75,000 trained agents worldwide. Even Madam C.J. Walker once worked as one of Malone’s Poro agents. By the 1920s, Malone was a multi-millionaire and deeply ingrained in philanthropy. She served on the board of the St. Louis Colored Orphan’s Home and financed two full-time scholarships for at each Historically Black College and University in the country. She also made a $25,000 donation to help build the St. Louis Colored YWCA. Hey everyone! I have a Ko-fi page where you can support my page. If you appreciate my work, your support would mean the world to me. ko-fi.com/africanarchives .Together, let’s keep these important stories alive. Thank you! 📚💫

If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line, because you have a right to make your voice heard: IWillVote.com

Kamala Harris used her visit to a phone bank hosted by the Democratic National Committee in Washington on Tuesday to both thank the supporters working to turn out the vote and make calls herself. to.pbs.org/48JRihu

“The King Holiday falls on the inauguration. It is important that the person who stands to take that Oval Office as the president of our country represents the man whose holiday we are going to be celebrating, and I believe Vice President Harris is that person.” Listen to a snippet of my interview with Toni Moore of @kiss1041fm. There is still time left to make your voices heard. #VOTE #Election2024 #MLKHoliday #KHO

Heyyyyy white women! ❤️ You got us, right?

109-Year-Old Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Casts Vote For Kamala Harris In 2024 Election essence.com/news/109-year-…

Do you want progress or regress? 🤷🏽‍♀️ This is the most consequential election of our generation. What you don’t change, you choose. So please grab your people and GO VOTE! #HarrisWalz2024

Police authorized to rush extra ballots to Boston polling place | Click on the image to read the full story wcvb.com/article/boston…

It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either. So please keep a few things in mind as you make your voice heard today: – Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today. Respect them. Thank them.  – Don’t share things before checking your sources.  – Let the process run its course. It takes time to count every ballot.

Already in line? Stay right there—you have the right to vote! 🗳️ No matter how long it takes, as long as you’re in line when the polls start to close, your vote will be counted. #NAACPVotes #ElectionDay

The line to vote at the University of Pennsylvania before polls even open. Young people are fired up & turning out! #BlueWave2024

This is not a line outside a poll site. This is a line of Harris volunteers filling up six buses on W. 62nd St., headed to PA this a.m. We're not going back y'all. #BlueWave2024

Y'ALL. My bestie just moved to upstate NY. Her absentee ballot was never sent. She & her hubs got in the car last night & DROVE 11 HOURS TO NC SO SHE COULD VOTE THIS MORNING!! >22hrs in the car to #VoteKamala! #BlueWave2024 #TrumpIsGoingDown #WomenVote #WereNotGoingBack

My mom has had a rough month, in and out of the hospital and surgical rehab. But she voted and is happily awaiting the results. @KamalaHarris @KamalaHQ #ElectionDay #BlueWave2024 #HarrisWalz2024InALandslide

Yay feels so good to vote!!! Have to say I shed a hopeful tear at the booth. #JoyfulWarriors #BlueWave2024

Every eligible voter has the freedom to vote and have their vote counted.

It’s Election Day! Today is the last day to vote and stand up for the issues you care about at the ballot box. Whether it’s the economy, reproductive rights, climate change, or gun safety — your vote helps you have a say in the direction we move on these issues as a country. Remember, elections are often decided by just a handful of votes. Head over to WhenWeAllVote.org to find your polling place today. Let’s do this!