This week, Scott spotlights Warsaw, North Carolina – which has the longest-running annual Veterans Day parade in the U.S., dating back to 1921. It’s also a troubling week in North Carolina history: November 10 marks the anniversary of the white-supremacist coup that overthrew a democratically elected government in Wilmington in 1898.
Also: Ruby Bridges desegregates a New Orleans school, an Oklahoma entrepreneur invents the shopping cart, and the Supreme Court strikes down bus segregation – part of a years-long struggle that also has a Chapel Hill connection.
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