Category Archives: History

I like to think of myself as reasonably well educated on American history but I had no idea that the state government of North Carolina was essentially deposed in a coup in 1898 when white Democrats decided that post-Reconstruction black men were getting a bit too successful and politicall powerful. Shameful, not only that it happened but that it was kept so quiet for so many years. Brent Staples has a good essay on the NY Times Editorial page on the report of the commission bringing the truth into the light.