John Bellamy Jr.

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Bellamy Jr. is depicted as walking cheerfully over the wreckage caused by a massacre and election fraud, showing no remorse or condemnation. The court case examining the fraudulent election is rigged, with Bellamy Jr. proudly sharing the bound court transcript at his mansion. This lack of accountability and brazenness in white supremacy actions no longer shock the speaker, serving as a reminder of the ongoing issues in the present time.

After the massacre and coup of November 10, 1898, white supremacists in North Carolina soon finished the job of disenfranchising Black citizens and instituting Jim Crow segregation. They also took control of the narrative. A new propaganda campaign, the one after the fact, succeeded for a century – even as several Black writers tried to tell the truth about 1898 and left breadcrumbs for future historians to find.

By Michael A. Betts, II and John Biewen. Interviews with LeRae Umfleet, Gareth Evans, David Cecelski, William Sturkey, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Doug Jones, and Adriane Lentz-Smith. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Voice actor: Mike Wiley. Music by Kieran Haile, Blue Dot Sessions, Okaya, Jameson Nathan Jones, and Lucas Biewen. Art by Zaire McPhearson. “Echoes of a Coup” is an initiative of America’s Hallowed Ground, a project of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.