For families that just decades earlier were torn apart by chattel slavery, being photographed together was proof of their resilience. 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 in the history of the US.
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