Wilmington's Lie The Murderous Coup of 1898 and Akili Tommasino The food is fresh and

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Wilmington's Lie The Murderous Coup of 1898 and Akili Tommasino The food is fresh andWinner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction. From 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