Textbooks framed white-supremacy campaigns as spontaneous black unrest

Evidence

If the Campaign for White Supremacy leading up to the 1898 elections was even mentioned in the junior-year class on the history of North Carolina, the events were described as another eruption of Negro dissatisfaction which, once expressed, quieted. … A thousand Black rapists (each vote a thousand more) haunted the campaign the Redeemers rallied to wage. They claimed the fight to protect their honor. For, if this time they didn’t prevail, who could imagine what they would be subject to? — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 862

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s case-study goal: textbook history as origin story that inverts which side was the aggressor — the ‘deviation vs design’ inversion applied at the level of historiography. — connects to: Racism is learned through discourse, beginning in school textbooks — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108
• CANDY: The line ‘a thousand Black rapists (each vote a thousand more) haunted the campaign’ is a biting compression of how the lynch-allegation fused voting with sexual threat.