Defeated homeowner groups still seeded a citywide white resistance politics
Evidence
Though they were ultimately unable to hold back black expansion in Mozley Park, these homeowners’ groups would foster the growth of a larger politics of white resistance across Atlanta. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 140
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Competing white supremacist groups were rivals publicly but allies in neighborhood defense. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 124; White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 190; Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 221 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Ordinary segregationists, not politicians, sustained flexible white resistance
#expands(0.85) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 29 - White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation
#expands(0.82) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 190 - Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition
#expands(0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 221 - Desegregation of public spaces drove working-class whites to reject civic community and city progress
#expands(0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 252