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| David Zucchino |
ASHEBORO – What has gone down in history as a “race riot” in
1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, actually was the violent, white supremacist
overthrow of a duly-elected, racially-mixed, local government.
The shocking story of that event is the topic of Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898
and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino, a Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist and author.
Zucchino will debut his book at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 30,
at the Asheboro Public Library. His talk, sponsored by the Friends of the
Library, is free and the public is invited.
In Wilmington’s Lie,
Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official
communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves
together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality, creating a dramatic
and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American
hisotry.
Zucchino was awarded the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in Feature
Writing for dispatches from apartheid South Africa, “Being Black in South
Africa,” for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Based in Durham, N.C., Zucchino now is a contributing writer
for The New York Times. He has
covered wars and civil conflicts in more than two dozen countries, and is a
four-time Pulitzer finalist for his reporting from Iraq, Lebanon, Africa and
inner-city Philadelphia.
He is the author of the books The
Myth of the Welfare Queen and Thunder
Run.
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