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David Crabtree (left), CEO of PBS North Carolina, speaks before the premiere of " American Coup: Wilmington, 1898" ...

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

A new documentary examining the history of Wilmington's 1898 coup that violently overthrew a multiracial local government ...

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Information about the coup was suppressed for decades, but the history is now well-known in Wilmington. It will reach a much wider audience 9 p.m. Nov. 12, when the documentary "American Coup ...

Hundreds of people packed into Thalian Hall to see “American Coup: Wilmington 1898.” PBS North Carolina produced the nearly 2-hour long documentary, which took more than 3 years to complete. The ...

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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état ...

Information about the coup was suppressed for decades, but the history is now well-known in Wilmington. It will reach a much ...