BROADCASTS.com

b'

After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising Black citizens and instituting Jim Crow segregation. They also took control of the narrative. A new propaganda campaign, the one\\xa0after\\xa0the fact, succeeded for a century \\u2013 even as several Black writers\\xa0tried\\xa0to tell the truth about 1898 and left breadcrumbs for future historians to find.

By Michael A. Betts, II and John Biewen. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, Gareth Evans, David Cecelski, William Sturkey, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Doug Jones, and Adriane Lentz-Smith. Story editor: Loretta Williams.\\xa0Voice actor: Mike Wiley. Music by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, 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.