The North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmington, Inc. was full of unforgettable moments! Parade views, garden blooms and plenty of spring fun - here’s a look at some of our favorites. 🌸 📸✨ | Visit Wilmington, NC and Beaches

On November 10, 1898, a mob of armed men led by white supremacists called Red Shirts stormed Wilmington, then North Carolina's most populous city. The mob ransacked and burned The Daily Record, the self-proclaimed “only negro daily in the world.” They went on to attack and expel much of Wilmington's African American community at gunpoint, including businessmen, political leaders, and the city's Black and White duly elected officials. Estimates of the number of Black residents killed that day var

1.7K views · 22 reactions | Discover the story of the deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of the state’s largest city at the the turn of the 20th century. Watch American Coup: Wilmington 1898 on American Experience | PBS, co-produced with PBS North Carolina and 371 Productions, on Tuesday, November 12 at 9 PM on PBS NC and streaming on the PBS app. | PBS North Carolina | Facebook