Black self-migration, not persuasion, drove the retreat of segregationist ideas

Evidence

The advance was not the by-product of Talented Tenth activists successfully persuading racist Americans that Black domestics and farmers could live and work in the industrial North. Migrants to the North were forcibly breaking out of the confines of agricultural and domestic labor in the segregated South, and thus the racist ideas justifying those confines. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 851

Categorization

• XREF: Directly operationalizes the core inversion of the book: structural Black action (migration) changes policy/ideation, not ideas changing minds first — central to reader’s stated goal. — connects to: Black homebuyers with no alternative housing effectively resisted segregationist intimidation. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 135