I literally just learned about this event for the first time. In 1898 white supremacists in Wilmington, NC successfully overthrew the local government by force and carried out a massacre of the city's black residents. The replacement of the Republican-Populist government with a Democratic one contributed to the imposition of Jim Crow laws which disenfranchised black voters in North Carolina. Apparently, a state commission ruled a few years ago that this incident should be considered a coup d'etat, the only such coup in American history. (Here's a link to an article about the state panel's findings: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053102080.html)
So, WI the Wilmington coup had been thwarted somehow? How might this have impacted race relations in the South and the civil rights movement?
So, WI the Wilmington coup had been thwarted somehow? How might this have impacted race relations in the South and the civil rights movement?