An ugly moment in US history on this day 120 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898

The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington race riot of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898. It is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina politics. The event initiated an era of more severe racial segregation and effective disenfranchisement of African Americans throughout the South, a shift already underway since passage by Mississippi of a new constitution in 1890, raising barriers to voter registration. Laura Edwards wrote in Democracy Betrayed (2000): "What happened in Wilmington became an affirmation of white supremacy not just in that one city, but in the South and in the nation as a whole", as it affirmed that invoking "whiteness" eclipsed the legal citizenship, individual rights, and equal protection under the law of blacks.^[2][3][4]
It was originally described by white Americans as a race riot caused by blacks. However, over time, with more facts publicized, the event has come to be classified as a coup d'état (violent overthrow of a government), with complex causes that were social, political, and economic.^{[5][6][1][7][8][9][10]} It is the only successful coup d'état on record in the U.S.^[11][12]
The coup occurred after the state's white Democratic Party conspired and led a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately-elected local Fusionist government. They expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens built up since the Civil War, including the only black newspaper in the city, and killed an estimated 60 to more than 300 people.

So basically a coup conducted by a bunch of terrorists and murderers for racist reasons. What truly astounds me is how many of the purveyors of the coups got rewarded -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898#Aftermath