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A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

  • Written by Kathy Roberts Forde, Associate Professor, Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their liesArmed white insurrectionists murdered Black men and burned Black businesses, including this newspaper office, during the Wilmington coup of 1898.Daily Record, North Carolina Archives and History

While experts debate whether the U.S. Capitol siege was an attempted coup, there is no debate that what happened in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina, was...

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