Stuff You Should Know

The Wilmington Massacre

November 5, 2026·42 min·7-min readnarrativeculture
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This episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosted by Josh and Chuck, unearths the Wilmington, North Carolina massacre and coup of 1898, in which an organized mob of white supremacists violently overthrew a democratically elected, multiracial local government and murdered dozens to hundreds of

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Alfred Moore WaddellAlex ManleyFurnifold M. SimmonsJosephus DanielsDaniel L. RussellGeorge H. WhiteRebecca Latimer FeltonHelen Gray EdmondsGeorge Roundtree

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The Daily RecordRaleigh News and Observer

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American HistoryCivil Rights HistoryCriminal JusticeDemocracyLong Form JournalismRacial Justice

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