Georgiann Baldino on Nostr: "On November 10, 1898, #WhiteSupremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred ...

"On November 10, 1898, #WhiteSupremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred upwards of 60 Black people and overthrew the city’s democratically elected government, instigating the only successful coup d’état in United States history. No one was brought to #justice for the horrific violence, and over the next century, the event was largely ignored, whitewashed as a “race riot” if it was mentioned at all."

Smithsonian article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-white-supremacists-staged-the-only-successful-coup-in-us-history-180985400/?spMailingID=50403461&spUserID=MTYwMDQyMzY3MDA1OAS2&spJobID=2820954352&spReportId=MjgyMDk1NDM1MgS2