A political coup and massacre takes place in which the multiracial Fusionist (Republican and Populist) city government of Wilmington, North Carolina, is violently overthrown by a group of the state's white Southern Democrats conspiring and leading a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected government in Wilmington.
They expelled the opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the American Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed from an estimated 60 to more than 300 people. More
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