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North Carolina city marks 125th anniversary of the white-supremacist attack with a week of memorial events

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.

Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Coverage: A Familiar History In North Carolina As Tulsa approaches the 100-year commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a town in North Carolina continues to face the reality of its past, too.  In Wilmington, white supremacists overthrew the city government in 1898 and an unknown number of black men were murdered.  The sun rises on the North Carolina coast and the Atlantic waves glide over the sand and shells on the shoreline of Wilmington: A beach town full of activity along the ocean, and downtown, near the Cape Fear River.  "There's so much to do....