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How white supremacists staged the only successful coup in U.S. history

First publishedJul 11, 13:20 UTC

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In 1898, Wilmington, N.C., was prosperous and integrated. But white supremacists took back control of the city's multi-racial government at gunpoint, and killed scores of Black residents - a little-known story retold in Lauren Collins' "They Stole a City."

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