“Wilmington’s Lie” Author Discusses the Lasting Impact of the 1898 Coup and Rise of White Supremacy​

<p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> On this week's episode of Tying It Together with Tim Boyum, Tim and Ben talk to Pulitzer Prize winning author David Zucchino, who wrote “<a href="https://groveatlantic.com/book/wilmingtons-lie/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy</a>”. </p> <p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> America is again talking in-depth about racial issues in this country, and this is the perfect time to learn about one dark day in this state's past very few people know about.</p> <p style= "color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> In the 1890's, Wilmington was a place where African Americans and whites lived together, and there was a Black middle class. That all ended in 1898 however, after white supremacists killed at least 60 African Americans and overthrew the governm