When white supremacists overthrew a government

Vox · 4.6M views · 2019 · 12:22

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Reveals the 1898 Wilmington coup, a largely forgotten white supremacist overthrow of a U.S. government.

Linked by 17 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including nc.gov, openculture.com, wonkette.com, portside.org, johnlocke.org.

Cited in 3 Wikipedia articles, including Wilmington massacre, Wilmington, North Carolina, Timeline of government attacks on journalists in the United States.