Early white sellers triggered a domino flight effect on the block

Evidence

Watching the black veteran lay his home’s foundation, Maybelle Turner decided he was there to stay. “I feel like [they] have a right, that this is a free country,” she later explained. “I did not object to colored people building there on their property. They owned it.” But just as she claimed Scott had a “right” to stay there, Maybelle Turner asserted her own prerogative to sell and leave. “I did not feel like I wanted to be there and be a fence to protect other people,” she stated. Soon thereafter, the Turners listed their home with a black real-estate agent, starting a domino effect along Mozley Place. The couple next door at 1406 Mozley, salesman John Ogletree and his wife Ethel, quickly listed their house with a black broker. Margaret Hall of 1416 soon followed suit. “Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Ogletree were selling their houses to colored people,” she reasoned, so “I knew no white person would buy mine.” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illustrates the ‘white flight’ tipping-point dynamics relevant to the reader’s thesis about how desegregation pressure reshaped suburban conservatism. — connects to: Blockbusting turned racial fear into profit for real estate speculators — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 917; One black purchase across a racial boundary triggered mass white selling. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 233; White homeowners saw each black move-in causing massive white flight citywide — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 21 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• One black purchase across a racial boundary triggered mass white selling. #corroborates (0.95) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 233
• Incipient black home sales triggered cascading white panic driven by rumor #corroborates (0.94) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 216
• Blockbusting turned racial fear into profit for real estate speculators #expands (0.86) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 917
• White homeowners saw each black move-in causing massive white flight citywide #expands (0.82) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 21
• White flight repeated itself from suburbs into 95-percent-white exurbs #exemplifies (0.76) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 589