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How white supremacists staged the only successful coup in U.S. history

In 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, N.C., overthrew the city's integrated government using violence, killing scores of Black residents. The event is explored in Lauren Collins' book 'They Stole a City,' discussed in an interview with Lee Cowan.

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