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"If it ever happens, run."

Criminal

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The Black Uprising

At least 2100 black people fled the city and never came back. Wilmington went from being a model of multiracial Democratic government small D to a white citadel. The coup also instituted white supremacy as official city and state policy for the next 50 or 60 years.

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