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.

Experts and people with government experience are calling a quote

coup attempt. An attempted coup. The United States endured an attempted coup in

2021 and our history is rife with elections that were distorted and undemocratic in a variety of ways.

But there's been only one successful coup d'etat in U.S. 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'etah, armed overthrow of the legally elected government.

It was a coup and a mass murder.

White supremacist massacred black people by the dozens, if not the hundreds.

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

minding their own business, and ended up shooting them one day stood and that started a massacre.

This is John Bewyn, producer and host of Seen on Radio.

And I'm Michael Betts, the second, an audio producer and an assistant professor in film studies at the University of

of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Michael and I are co-producers of season six, echoes of a coup, in which we tell the story of Wilmington,

1898, what happened, how it happened, and what was lost as a result.

Go to the polls tomorrow, and if you find the Negro outvoting, tell them to leave the polls tomorrow and if you find the Negro out voting tell them to leave the polls and if

he refuses kill him shoot them down in his tracks we shall win tomorrow if we have to do

it with guns as with many other horrifying episodes in U.S. history,

White America enforced a long silence about Wilmington,

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