Researchers have uncovered new information about Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre, including what's being called a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1898, white supremacists orchestrated a coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing a biracial government and massacring ...

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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 examines how a white mob overthrew the democratically elected interracial government of a North Carolina town. Credit: Courtesy Image / American Experience Just in time ...

*The Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the port ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY-TV) — This week, a number of events are planned to commemorate the 1898 Coup and massacre in Wilmington which took place 127 years ago. Following an election, a mob of 2,000 white ...

We have taken a city : a centennial essay / H. Leon Prather, Sr. -- Abraham H. Galloway : Wilmington's lost prophet and the rise of black radicalism in the American South / David S. Cecelski -- Murder ...

Bertha Boykin Todd, a Wilmington educator and civil rights activist who in the 1990s helped lead the effort to publicly acknowledge and reckon with the history of Wilmington's racially charged coup ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...