The massacre devastated Wilmington’s flourishing Black middle class and sent a message of impunity to white vigilantes nationwide. I recently asked Collins which books she would recommend, from among those that she drew on to write hers. Then I found an interview with Wilkerson in which she compared her book’s overlapping structure to Robert Altman’s kaleidoscopic films. I did the same for the Wilmington families—two white families who perpetrated the violence of 1898, two Black families who came through it—whom I write about in my book. November 10, 1898, I argue, is a centuries-long day that isn’t over yet.