it was very interesting to me that the from my perspective the main leader of the coup was alfred waddell and yet somewhere in the middle of the coup, no lynching and they were looking for alex manley and they had looked all around the city and he said, no lynching. in the most silly thing i suppose one of them is your most printed somewhere against the fusionist mayor out of office and so all the government officials even though the majority of the government officials, all thought that waddell has control of the whole city pretty. >> and that is why he is put into this awkward position, it was to give these speeches, really inciting white men for attacking blackman in terrorizing and then keep them from voting in fact, the night before the election he told them that if they went out they saw blackman trying to vote, they should order him to go home braided and shoot them in their tracks that was a direct quote. in fact after they at gunpoint removed the police chief they held a postelection, a fake election and he was elected as mayor braided so he was named as mayor and then put into p

> it was very interesting for me that from my perspective, the main leader of the coup was alfred waddeld, yet, somewhere in the middle of the coup, he says no lynching. no lynching. and, you know, they were looking for alex manly. they had check points all around the city. and then he says no lynching. and the most silly thing, i suppose, one of the many silly things, is he almost crowned himself mayor after they get the fusionists mayor out of office. and, so, all of the government officials, even the white ones, which were the majority of the government officials all got sent home and waddell has control of the whole city. >> yeah. and that's why he was put in this awkward position. all summer, his role during the summer was to give these ind send yar speeches really inspiting white men to attack black men and terrorize them and keep them from voting. he said if they went out and saw a black man trying to vote, they should order him to go home or shoot him down. shoot him in his tracks. that was his quote. in fact, after they -- at gunpoint they removed the previous city mayor, the po