The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Guest host: Tracy SmithCOVER STORY: How white supremacists staged the only successful coup in U.S. historyIn 1898, Wilmington, N.C., was a prosperous integrated city, where Black and white North Carolinians shared political power and leadership positions. But white supremacists took back control of the city's multi-racial government at gunpoint, and launched a wave of violence that killed scores of Black residents. That little-known history is the subject of The New Yorker journalist Lauren Collins' new book, "They Stole a City." She talks with Lee Cowan about her hometown's darkest chapter – the only successful coup in our nation's history.READ AN EXCERPT: "They Stole a City" by Lauren CollinsFor more info:"They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live With Its Legacy" by Lauren Collins (Penguin Press), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available July 14 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgLauren Collins, The New YorkerLauren Collins on InstagramWilmingtoNColor Heritage Shuttle ToursLatimer House Museum and Gardens, Wilmington, N.C.Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, N.C. First Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, N.C.Thanks to:New Hanover County Public LibraryCape Fear Museum of History & ScienceWilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"American Coup: Wilmington 1898" (PBS)371 Productions ALMANAC: July 12"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
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SUNDAY BEST: The universal nostalgia for "Take Me Home, Country Roads""Take Me Home, Country Roads," a song about a longing for home (co-written by a songwriter who had never even been in West Virginia), has been embraced by the Mountain State in a big way, and has since been appropriated by singers around the world looking for their very own "place I belong." Correspondent Conor Knighton looks into the genesis and global impact of John Denver's first big hit; and with country star Brad Paisley about the special pull the song has for him. (Originally broadcast Dec. 26, 2021.)For more info:Brad PaisleyBill Danoff"Take Me Home, Country Roads: Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes" by Sarah L. Morris (West Virginia University Press), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgSarah Morris, Department of English, West Virginia UniversitySpecial thanks to West Virginia UniversitySpecial thanks to West Virginia Department of TourismThe Park Avenue Armory installation of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's "Clinamen," in New York City.
