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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

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Jun 16, 2021 07:37AM

Annie Lee Phillips (annieleephillips) | 1921 comments

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Today's pick is the 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Non-Fiction.

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Myth of the Welfare Queen documents the events of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and its unrecognized role in reversing the city’s mixed-race advances, overthrowing local government and promoting white-supremacist agendas."

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