binchy this, reginald apps, jerry jacobs, james mccoy, wayne moore, morton patrick, and shepard, connie kendall, willie, and jill right. 10 individuals whose lives were ruined to further the aims of the state. the media event that led to the wilmington ten with a boycott of wilmington's recently desegregated schools in the first week of february 1971 by black students who object to the mistreatment by school officials, by police who came onto campus to stop fights and by white adult frogs look into the schools to harass black students. they also protested their exclusion from a variety of extracurricular activities such as cheerleading, the sports teams, student council, the honor society and so on. high school students issued a list of demands and established the boycott headquarters at gregory congregational church which is fully with the united church of christ. a local paramilitary white supremacist organization called the rights of white people which had broken away from the klan in the county because it believed the klan was to moderate. they heard about the boycott and begin to harass the students includi