January 2021, an outgoing president and his supporters try to overturn the results of an election.

Because we're going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed, and we're not going to stand for that.

Making the transfer of power anything but peaceful.

They broke the glass in the United States Capitol and now they are climbing through the window.

It has been absolute madness here today, some even calling it an insurrection that experts and people with government experience are calling a quote

coup attempt an attempted coup an attempted coup but this podcast series is

not about a failed coup in 2021.

Most historians agree there's been only one successful coup

in US history in Wilmington, North Carolina,

November 1898, When men openly proclaiming white supremacy in a well-planned conspiracy

removed the city's mayor and city council at gunpoint.

And this is the exact definition of a coup d'etatement. the

council at gun point. And this is the exact definition of a coup d'etat. Armed overthrow of a legally elected government.

It was a coup and a mass murder,

a white supremacist massacre of black people by the dozens if not the hundreds.

It should be as well known as the mass killings two decades later in Tulsa, Oklahoma and

Rosewood, Florida.

They ended up seeing some blacks just going about their day-to-day,

minding their own business, and ended up shooting them when they stood.

As with so many horrifying episodes in U.S. history, White America enforced a long silence about

Wilmington, 1898, or straight up lied about it.

More than a century later, North Carolina did own up to what happened in Wilmington.

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