Editing Cameron A. Morrison (section)

==Early life and career==
He was born in 1869 in [[Richmond County, North Carolina]].

In 1898, Morrison participated in the [[Wilmington insurrection of 1898]], a violent coup d'état by a group of white supremacists. They expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed an estimated 60 to more than 300 people.<ref name=Thalian2>{{cite news|title=RACE QUESTION IN POLITICS:North Carolina White Men Seek to Wrest Control from the Negroes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/10/24/archives/race-question-in-politics-north-carolina-white-men-seek-to-wrest.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 24, 1898|access-date=January 26, 2020|archive-date=January 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126203045/https://www.nytimes.com/1898/10/24/archives/race-question-in-politics-north-carolina-white-men-seek-to-wrest.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The governor of North Carolina, [[Daniel Lindsay Russell]], was forced to flee from Wilmington to Raleigh. Morrison boarded Russell's train in [[Maxton, North Carolina]] in the company of a small band of [[Red Shirts (United States)|Red Shirts]] and warned Russell that a more hostile band of Red Shirts were waiting at a later stop. He advised Russell to hide in the baggage car to avoid being lynched, which he did.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zucchino|first1=David|title=Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy|date=2020|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=9780802128386}}, pp. 172-173</ref>

In 1900, he was elected to the [[North Carolina Senate]] for one term.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/morrison-cameron |title=NCpedia biography of Cameron Morrison |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806212600/https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/morrison-cameron |url-status=dead }}</ref>