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On November 11, 1869, Victoria enacted the Aboriginal Protection Act, giving the colonial government sweeping powers over the lives of Aboriginal people. It allowed officials to control where they lived, where they worked, how their wages were managed, and what happened to their children: 🧵
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Victoria's 1869 Act was an early legislative foundation for this system of government control. What had been presented as protection became a means of restricting the freedom of Aboriginal people and breaking connections between children, families, and culture.
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Laws like this one were part of a sustained system of government policy that profoundly affected First Peoples across Australia.
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ALT Kevin Rudd on screen in Federation Square, Melbourne, apologising to the stolen generations.
ALT Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples. Taken at Parliament House, Canberra.
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On November 10, 1898, White supremacists launched a violent coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing the city's elected government and attacking its Black residents. The massacre destroyed a thriving Black political community and became the only successful coup d'état in American history: 🧵
ALT A group of "Red Shirts" at Old Hundred, North Carolina, on Election Day 1898
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For decades, the events were commonly described as a race riot, a term that obscured the organized campaign to overthrow an elected government. Today, the Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 are recognized as a defining example of white supremacist violence in American history.
ALT New York Herald - Nov. 11, 1898
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It was a day of racial violence and the destruction of a democratically elected government, carried out through intimidation, murder, and the forced removal of Black citizens from political life.
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ALT The Richmond Planet's reporting on the massacre. "The Turks out done" refers to the 1890s Hamidian massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
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