Wilmington Coup 
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
2/4/2021
How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past
"For the African American community, it was still this large, looming scar, and the white community literally didn’t even know what had happened. It had just been erased. There was this disconnect in the community."
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It
LeRae Sikes Umfleet's 2009 book explored the 1898 Wilmington insurrection and showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”
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