On November 1898, North Carolina Democrats won a sweeping victory at the polls – confirming the success of their campaign based on white supremacy, intimidation, and fraud. But in Wilmington, the state’s 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.
By John Biewen and Michael A. Betts, II. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, Bertha Todd, William Sturkey, Cedric Harrison, and Milo Manly. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Voice actor: Mike Wiley. Music by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, Kevin McLeod, and Lucas Biewen. Art by Zaire McPhearson. “Echoes of a Coup” is an initiative of America’s Hallowed Ground, a project of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
S6 E5: A Way Forward
S6 E4: The Forgetting
S6 E2: Crying "Negro Rule"
S6 E1: What Was Lost
Season 6 Trailer: Echoes of a Coup
Update: Scene on Radio status report
"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast
White Affirmative Action: Rebroadcast
Losing Ground: Rebroadcast
Bonus: Introducing Hot Take
Himpathy: Rebroadcast
Things I'm Afraid to Say: Rebroadcast
Prince and Philando and Futures Untold: Rebroadcast
S5 E11: Change Everything
S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source
S5 E9: Pachamama
S5 E8: Last Orders
S5 E7: Deluges and Dreams
S5 E6: "We Don't Have the Power to Fight It"
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