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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Nature_Gift_Guide three hundred miles away fromWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTIONFrom Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolinas largest city and a shining example of a mixed race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists