Let's not keep forgetting

… ‘Wilmington’s Lie’: This little-known 1898 coup in North Carolina had an ugly legacy | Book review.

The final third gauges the aftershocks. The Wilmington overthrow did not cause the triumph of white supremacy in the South, but it did help it spread. The first Jim Crow law passed in 1899, and the Democrats took the state in 1900, unleashing a flood of segregationist legislation to solidify white domination.

I'm so old I remember when the Democratic Party was the party of segregation. (Robert Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights bill).