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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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Philip Gerard | |
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| Born | April 7, 1955 Newark, Delaware, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 2022 (aged 67) Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Education | BA from University of Delaware; graduate work at Arizona writers workshop |
| Alma mater | University of Delaware |
| Occupations | Writer, professor, historian |
| Spouse | Jill Gerard |
| Writing career | |
| Genres | Fiction, creative nonfiction, historical writing |
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| Notable awards | North Carolina Award for Literature (2019) |
Philip Gerard (April 7, 1955 – November 7, 2022) was an American writer, professor, and historian. For more than thirty years, he was a professor in the creative writing department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). He was the author of over a dozen books, including both fiction and creative nonfiction. His most provocative writing was concerning the American Civil War and the subsequent Wilmington massacre, America's only coup d'état. In 2019 he received the North Carolina Award for Literature.
Born in Newark, Delaware, Gerard grew up there and attended St. Andrew's School in Middletown. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Anthropology from the University of Delaware. He completed his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona in 1981.[1]
Gerard worked as a writer and educator for over three decades. He taught creative writing at University of North Carolina Wilmington and was an early advocate for the creative writing department and its MFA program.[2] With his wife, Jill Gerard, he served as co-editor of the literary journal Chautauqua.[3]
Gerard documented history, and was praised for inciting interest about historic topics.[4] His historical research was crucial to his nonfiction work, as seen in his book The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina[5] and his involvement in the North Carolina Civil War and Reconstruction History Center.[6][7]
Gerard's 1994 novel, Cape Fear Rising,[8] brought the Wilmington massacre to public attention. The massacre is also known as the Wilmington coup of 1898 and its history was suppressed for nearly 100 years. Gerard tells the story of this violent overthrow of an elected city government after Reconstruction and during the Jim Crow era. This was America's only coup d'état. The book is credited with sparking a community-wide conversation about the event.[9] Gerard's book was cited in 2006 by the North Carolina government in the 1898 Wilmington race riot report[10] (pages 426-428). The report resulted in the 2007 passage of Senate Joint Resolution 1572 in which the State of North Carolina "expresses [its] profound regret...that the government was unsuccessful in protecting its citizens during that time."[11] Further public attention was brought to Gerard's book with the publication in 2021 of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy,[12] by David Zucchino, and a PBS American Experience documentary, American Coup: Wilmington 1898 released in late 2024.[13]
Gerard was also a regular contributor to Our State Magazine[14] and provided commentary for WHQR public radio.[15] His work for the magazine included popular and exhaustively researched series on the American Civil War and North Carolina's history throughout different decades.[16]
Gerard's published work spans fiction and creative nonfiction.
Gerard died unexpectedly on November 7, 2022, at the age of 67. His influence as an author and a professor is widely recognized in North Carolina's literary community.[2][14][15][21] His legacy is commemorated at UNC Wilmington through a graduate fellowship in creative writing established in his name.[22]
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Philip Gerard (April 7, 1955 – November 7, 2022) was an American writer, professor, and historian. For more than thirty years, he was a professor in the creative writing department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). He was the author of over a dozen books, including both fiction and creative nonfiction. His most provocative writing was concerning the American Civil War and the subsequent Wilmington massacre, America's only coup d'état. In 2019 he received the North Carolina Award for Literature.
The Fugitive is an American crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television. It aired on ABC from September 17, 1963, to August 29, 1967. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, a physician who is wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder, and unjustly sentenced to death. While Dr. Kimble is en route to death row, the train derails over a track defect, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man" (played by Bill Raisch). At the same time, Richard Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard (Barry Morse). The Fugitive aired for four seasons, with 120 51-minute episodes produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black-and-white, while the fourth and final season was filmed in color. The series was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series in 1966. In 2002, it was ranked number 36 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man number five in their 2013 list of the 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time. The popularity of the series led to various adaptations and the creation of a titular franchise.
Herbert "Barry" Morse (10 June 1918 – 2 February 2008) was a British-Canadian actor, writer, and director. He was known for playing Lt. Philip Gerard, the principal antagonist of the American television series The Fugitive (1963–67), as well as Dr. Victor Bergman on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's science-fiction programme Space: 1999 (1975–76). Morse's performing career spanned seven decades and hundreds of roles across film, television, stage, and radio. At various times, he worked in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. He was a steady fixture of BBC and CBC television programming for many years, and an artistic director of the Shaw Festival.
Philip Gerard Sullivan (8 September 1903 – 15 February 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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