By 1898, two decades after the end of Reconstruction, white elites, backed by violent terror groups, have installed Jim Crow across most of the South. North Carolina, led by its largest city, Wilmington, is different. A Fusion coalition, made up of mostly-Black Republicans and mostly-White members of the Populist Party, controls the city and state governments. White supremacist Democrats are frustrated and plot to gain power by any means necessary.
By Michael A. Betts, II, and John Biewen. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, David Cecelski, and Cedric Harrison. The series story editor is Loretta Williams. Music in this episode by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, and Lucas Biewen. Art by Zaire MacPhearson. “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 E3: A Day of Blood
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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