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(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Nov. 10 marks the 126th anniversary of a dark day in Wilmington's history: the coup and massacre of 1898, when armed white ...

EXCLUSIVE: A duly elected city government in North Carolina, made up of Black and white officials. An armed white mob stages a violent coup, killing dozens – perhaps even hundreds of people in the ...

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app “American Coup: Wilmington 1898” tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated ...