123 Years Later, A Funeral Is Held for a Black Man Killed in White Supremacist Massacre

By Rachel Pilgrim, The Root

Rev. William Barber II delivered the eulogy for Joshua Halsey, telling those who gathered at the cemetery that what killed Halsey is still alive today.

White supremacists killed Joshua Halsey 123 years ago, but his legacy continues to live through the efforts of his descendants, historians and activists.

Halsey was just 40 years old when he and what are thought to be more than a hundred victims were murdered by white supremacists during the 1898 massacre of a successful Black community in Wilmington, N.C. The victims were later buried in unmarked graves…

Black people were even part of the city’s government that White supremacists set out to destroy. Shortly after the Democratic Party — the party of White supremacy at the time — won the county’s election by intimidating Black voters and tampering with the returns, according to the commission, armed White men burned down The Daily Record, Wilmington’s Black newspaper and then began attacking Black people…

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