David Crabtree (left), CEO of PBS North Carolina, speaks before the premiere of " American Coup: Wilmington, 1898" ...

A new documentary examining the history of Wilmington's 1898 coup that violently overthrew a multiracial local government ...

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My own family felt hesitant to talk about it so I really had to like chase down stories.” Haile is the great-great-grandson ...

Hundreds of people packed into Thalian Hall to see “American Coup: Wilmington 1898.” PBS North Carolina produced the nearly 2-hour long documentary, which took more than 3 years to complete.

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

Wilmington's history: the coup and massacre of 1898, when armed white supremacists organized by some of the town's leading citizens killed dozens of Black people, drove some 2,000 others out of town ...

Over the last decade, the 1898 coup and massacre have become more openly discussed and memorialized in the Wilmington area — ...

Descendants of the victims and perpetrators of the 1898 Wilmington coup share their views of the massacre’s historical legacy ...

CAROL ANDERSON, HISTORIAN: This was a coup based on the devaluation of African American citizenship. What Wilmington tells us in that larger scope of American history is how fragile American ...