Columbians framed desegregation as a communist threat to white existence

Evidence

Despite their disdain for the proceedings, Burke and Loomis welcomed the chance for publicity. Responding to the state’s allegations, the Columbians claimed they defended Anglo-Saxon civilization from communism, which called for an “ungodly doctrine of one nation and one race.” “This doctrine, if not repelled,” the Columbians warned, “will bring about a condition where all men will be colored and no man will be white.” … In the end, an Atlanta jury took only twenty-nine minutes to revoke the charter. As an added blow, the Columbians found themselves added to the House Un-American Activities Committee’s list of subversive groups, placed alphabetically alongside the Communist Party they so despised. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the color-blind suburban conservatism narrative the reader is tracking — the Columbians explicitly invert the later ‘color-blind’ rhetoric, demanding racial purity openly. — connects to: Communists subordinated racial discrimination to class struggle as their theory of causation — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 822; Residential desegregation fractured white working-class solidarity into defensive individualism — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 191; White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 190 (+4 more)
• CANDY: An Atlanta jury revoked the Columbians’ charter in 29 minutes, and HUAC listed them alphabetically right beside the Communist Party they hated.

Broader Connections

• Some nineteenth-century racists predicted non-white domination #exemplifies (0.80) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 308
• White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation #corroborates (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 190
• Classic racisms located race as an external colonial invader threatening European homogeneity #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 359
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation #expands (0.74)
• White fear of black people originated in reconciling democracy with slavery #expands (0.73) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 227
• Communists subordinated racial discrimination to class struggle as their theory of causation #qualifies (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 822
• Residential desegregation fractured white working-class solidarity into defensive individualism #complicates (0.71) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 191