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Veiled visions : the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations / David Fort Godshalk.

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Publisher's description: In 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black-on-white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty-five black fatalities. Atlanta's black residents fought back and repeatedly defend...

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Online Access: Electronic version of Book Review Only (Unrestricted access)
Main Author: Godshalk, David Fort
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Race riots > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
Racism > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Atlanta : junction of everything finest and most foul
  • Chivalry's multiple meanings
  • Voicing Black manliness
  • Testing loyalties and identities in the crucible of riot
  • Competing national constructions of manhood and mayhem
  • Interracial cooperation's profits and costs
  • God, give us men!
  • Atlanta's reconstruction and America's racial transformations
  • Disfranchisement, disunity, and division
  • Building a nation of neighbors
  • The ghosts of a riot past
  • Conclusion : the lessons of a riot.

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