Massacres & mob attacks
The Wilmington coup and massacre
10 November 1898Wilmington, including the Brooklyn neighbourhood, NC
White Democrats overthrew Wilmington's elected biracial government by force - the only coup d'etat on American soil - killing at least fourteen Black residents and driving thousands out of the city for good.
- People killed
- 14–60
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.