Tuesday, November 10, 2026 — Today’s Biggest Story in History on this date
The Wilmington Coup, 1898
On November 10, 1898, a mob of 2,000 white supremacists overthrew Wilmington, North Carolina’s elected biracial government, burned the Black-owned Daily Record newspaper, and killed at least 14 Black residents. It was the only successful coup d’état in American history.
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