Atlanta’s celebrated moderation enforced only token minimal desegregation

Evidence

While Atlanta’s leaders claimed to welcome racial change as demonstrations of their commitment to the rule of law and their pursuit of progress in all things, in truth they always followed the path of least resistance. Throughout the struggles over segregated education, white moderates allowed for only the minimum amount of change needed to preserve the city’s progressive public image. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 311

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the pooled-respectability and token-desegregation mechanisms seen in earlier chapters. — connects to: Atlanta’s placement bureaucracy admitted just nine black students of thousands — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 348; Voluntary local desegregation produced tokenism and arbitrary exclusion rather than integration. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 481; Court-ordered desegregation of public spaces produced resegregation and private alternatives, not integration — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 250 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Voluntary local desegregation produced tokenism and arbitrary exclusion rather than integration. #corroborates (0.92) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 481
• Court-ordered desegregation of public spaces produced resegregation and private alternatives, not integration #corroborates (0.85) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 250
• Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
• Desegregation replaced liberatory Black schooling with obedience-based knowledge transmission #complicates (0.72)