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Thursday, February 27, 2025
7 PM
Nashville Public Television
161 Rains Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
5 PM
Museum of the Albemarle
501 South Water St
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
5 PM
UNC Wilmington
Morton Hall 100
683 Racine Dr
Wilmington, NC 28403
Thursday, March 6, 2025
6 PM
NC School of Science and Math
Academic Commons 2204/2206
901 Burkemont Avenue
Morganton, NC 28655
In this interactive lesson, students will learn about the 1898 Wilmington coup, a violent uprising by white supremacists that overthrew an integrated city government and devastated North Carolina’s largest city.
Learn how the history of the 1898 Wilmington coup and race massacre was effectively erased from textbooks and collective memory in this video adapted from American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
In this interactive lesson, students will explore the role of the media in the 1898 Wilmington Coup, the only successful coup in U.S. history. Democratic White supremacists orchestrated a strategic campaign to reclaim political control of state and local governments, using White-owned newspapers to spread misinformation and incite racial violence.
American Experience
The little-known story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC.
American Experience
Just decades after the Civil War, a multi-racial political alliance won control of North Carolina.
American Experience
Beautiful, intimate photographs of a society in the crosshairs of white supremacy.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
239 Central Ave
Hot Springs, AR 71901
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Presented by AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY 10037
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts
310 Chestnut St
Wilmington, NC 28401
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Naval Heritage Center
701 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Presented by WABE
The Atlanta History Center
130 W Paces Ferry Rd NW
Atlanta, GA 30305
Thursday, February 20, 2025
5:30 PM
Goler Memorial AME Zion Church
3894 Northampton Dr
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 has been made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Atlantic Packaging. Additional support comes from the Ford Foundation JustFilms, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Firelight Media, Black Public Media and Andy and Tracy Lowenthal.
Support for complementary education and engagement initiatives provided by the Elizabeth L. Carter Foundation, the Truist Foundation, and North Carolina Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by Wendy and Michael Brenner, Blanche Williamson, The Robinson-Hill Humanitarian Fund, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and by John and Mary Louise Burress, Leigh Carter, Michael and Kathleen Glancy, Kate Woodbury and an anonymous donor.
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this film do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
