Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 on KPBS TV / stream now with the PBS app. Discover the story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of the state’s largest city through a campaign of violence and intimidation.
The Wilmington Light Infantry, Rapid Fire Gun Squad. Captain William R. Kenan on the back right, standing.
Alexander Manly, editor and publisher of The Daily Record, Wilmington’s only Black newspaper in the 1890s. The history of what happened in Wilmington was buried until descendants and scholars began to investigate half a century later. Centennial remembrances in 1998 brought together white and Black descendants for public events, sparking a full re-examination of the coup and its aftermath.
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