In this video we cover the Wilmington Massacre and Coup of 1898, the only successful coup d'etat on US soil. DISCORD: https://discord.gg/bUCf857 CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 01:00 Part I - The Fusionists and the Redeemers 02:40 Part II - The Preparation 06:52 Part III - The Coup and The Massacre 11:29 Part IV - The Aftermath SONG CREDITS Virtutes Instrumenti by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Southern Melodies The Troubadours Speaking Unto Nations (Beethoven Symphony No. 7 - II) From the Soundtrack to “The Kings Speech” Cryptic Sorrow by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3568-cryptic-sorrow License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abide With Me The Choir of the King’s College, Cambridge IMAGE SOURCES Wikimedia Commons University of North Carolina North Carolina Department of Cultural and Natural Resources Encyclopedia of North Carolina SOURCES Prather, H. Leon. We Have Taken a City: Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. Lafrance, Adrienne, and Vann R. Newkirk III. “The Lost History of an American Coup D’État.” The Atlantic, 2017. August 12. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/. #coup #treason #sedition