'Wilmington's Lie' Author Traces The Rise Of White Supremacy In A Southern City
- Title
- 'Wilmington's Lie' Author Traces The Rise Of White Supremacy In A Southern City
- Description
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Journalist David Zucchino says Wilmington, N.C., was once a mixed-race community with a thriving black middle class. Then, in 1898, white supremacists staged a murderous coup that changed everything.
- Date
- January 13, 2020 1:25 PM ET
- interviewer
- Terry Gross
- interviewee
- David Zucchino
- Creator
- Fresh Air
- Item sets
- BLND: Geographies of Inequity
- Site pages
- Newspapers (cite the interview)