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Reparations for Slavery & its Legacy
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10: The Wilmington Coup & the Birth of Modern White Supremacy
Wilmington, North Carolina, was the closest America had come to a true post-racial society -- until a bloody coup in 1898 destroyed the model for a democratic New South and laid the foundation for modern White Supremacy.