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ABC News(WILMINGTON, Nc.) -- On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned

ABC News(WILMINGTON, Nc.) -- On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the citys local leaders, which

ABC News(WILMINGTON, Nc.) -- On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the city's local leaders, which included a mix of white and Black elected o...

(WILMINGTON, Nc.) -- On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the city's local leaders, which included a mix of white and Black elected officials, to resign in what historians call the only successful coup in U.S. history.Now historians, residents and descendants

Nearly 125 years later, the wounds of the 1898 Wilmington coup still run deep in the city, with many residents saying Wilmington never made amends for the violence.

WILMINGTON – The Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill awakened an awareness in Americans to the fragility of democracy. But many people didn’t come out of the experience of watching history unfold in real time with an understanding of how to process that stark realization. In the hours and days after the deadly riot that directly led to the deaths of five people, Americans turned to history to help understand the troubling present through the past – and nothing has educated people about ...

BBC News By Toby Luckhurst image captionThe mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government. Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state. They destroyed black-owned businesses, murdered black residents, and forced the elected local government - a coalition of white and black pol...