S6 E3: A Day of Blood
On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls \u2013 confirming the success of their campaign based on white supremacy, intimidation, and fraud. But in Wilmington, the state\u2019s largest city, white supremacist leaders were not satisfied. This episode tells what happened on November 10, 1898, in Wilmington: a massacre of Black men, and the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history.
\n\nBy John Biewen and Michael A. Betts, II. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, Bertha Todd, William Sturkey, Cedric Harrison, and Milo Manly. Story editor: Loretta Williams.\xa0Voice actor: Mike Wiley. Music by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, Kevin McLeod, and Lucas Biewen.\xa0Art by Zaire McPhearson. \u201cEchoes of a Coup\u201d is an initiative of America\u2019s Hallowed Ground, a project of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.