---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wilmington 1898 Riot."
description: "Wilmington 1898 Riot."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SJR 1572"
citation: "North Carolina SJR 1572 (2007)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS", "COUNTIES", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "MINORITIES", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "RESOLUTIONS", "JOINT", "NEW HANOVER COUNTY", "WILMINGTON", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. DORSETT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-07-31"
last_action: "2007-08-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2224df1-96f7-449c-a65f-69d264efa5d1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S1572&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "58313afd83ab86f0c41133ed165bbe87a28819f5b72f1ababaf5198890d341c8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SJR 1572 (2007) — Wilmington 1898 Riot.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1572v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1572v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1572v2.pdf)
4. **Res 2007-67** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1572v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **80–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Albertson — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Boseman — cosponsor (person)
- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Foriest — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-08-02** Ch. Res 2007-67 `became-law`
- **2007-08-02** Ratified
- **2007-08-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/2/2007
- **2007-08-01** Cal Pursuant 32(a)
- **2007-08-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-08-01** Engrossed
- **2007-08-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2007-08-01** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-31** Placed On Cal For 8/1/2007
- **2007-07-31** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2224df1-96f7-449c-a65f-69d264efa5d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).