(ThyBlackMan.com) After a year-long tour across the state of North Carolina, several film festivals and multiple screenings across the country, ‘Wilmington on Fire’ has been released on Vimeo On Demand for digital streaming.
‘Wilmington on Fire’ chronicles the bloody attack on the African-American community by an enraged white mob in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898. It is considered one of the only successful coup d’etat in the United States that left countless numbers of African-American citizens dead and exiled from the city.
After a racially divisive election, a white mob — under the direction of city leaders — burned the offices of the Wilmington Record, the city’s only black-owned newspaper. Then, the mob fanned out over the city killed and exiled hundreds of African-Americans. In the aftermath, the mayor and board of aldermen were all forced to resign and a new, all-white city government was installed. The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was the springboard for the white supremacy movement and Jim Crow segregation throughout the state of North Carolina and the American south. The documentary includes interviews with scholars, historians, activists and descendants of some of the victims of the massacre.
‘Wilmington on Fire’ is available for digital streaming on Vimeo on Demand at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wilmingtononfire. You can rent it for a 48-hour period for $7.99 or buy it for $14.99 that will allow you to stream it forever.
The DVD for ‘Wilmington on Fire’ scheduled for release during the same time, has been pushed back to December 1, 2016. You can pre-order the DVD for a discount price of $19.99 at http://spellerstreetfilms.bigcartel.com/ until December 1, 2016.
For more information, contact Speller Street Films L.L.C. at (910) 280-3914 or spellerstreetfilms@gmail.com.
Staff Writer; Christopher Everett
