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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Length
- ≈ 562 pages
- Reading time
- 15–19 hours
- ISBN
- 0802146481
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
The journalist David Zucchino details the events that led up to the Wilmington massacre of 1898, in which white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, carried out a massacre and a coup d’état.
Source: Wilmington's Lie
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