Wilmington Massacre 
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
1/21/2021
Why the Mob Thought Attacking the Capitol was their ‘1776 Moment’
by Franita Tolson
"The pro-Trump insurrectionists seeking to replicate 1776 ignore that America has consistently recommitted itself to democracy in the two centuries since the Revolution — choosing voting over violence and ballots over bullets."
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
11/9/2020
An American Pogrom (Review)
by David W. Blight
David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina.
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