‘The wound hasn’t healed’: Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents
(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- Athalia Howe was just 12 years old when she, her sister and mother were forced to seek refuge in a cemetery as armed white supremacists terrorized Wilmington, North Carolina, in the fall of 1898. Separated from her father, they were unsure if...