When white supremacists overthrew a government

The hidden history of an American coup. Join the Vox Video Lab for a behind-the-scenes look into Ranjani’s reporting process and to support future episodes of Missing Chapter: Correction at 7:23: Cynthia’s ancestors lived in Wilmington, not her descendants. In November 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of 2,000 white men expelled black and white political leaders, destroyed the property of the city’s black residents, and killed dozens--if not hundreds--of people. How did
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