Freedmen in 1865 anticipated enduring white prejudice would block integration

Evidence

When they asked Frazier whether freedmen preferred to live among whites or in separate black colonies, he said: “I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over; but I do not know that I can answer for my brethren.” Each minister had a chance to answer for himself. They all agreed with “brother Frazier” except for James Lynch, a twenty-six-year-old minister from Baltimore, Maryland, where he had been born free. In contrast to Frazier and the others, he felt that black and white “should not be separated but live together.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 13

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth tracing: even at the moment of emancipation, freed leaders diagnosed Southern prejudice as durable — a contemporary acknowledgement that undercuts the notion that desegregation was ever naive.
• XREF: connects to: Black leaders in 1865 predicted persistent Southern prejudice against them; Freedpeople rejected uplift suasion and integration as antiracist strategies — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 616
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Black leaders in 1865 predicted persistent Southern prejudice against them; Freedpeople rejected uplift suasion and integration as antiracist strategies — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 616

Broader Connections

• Black leaders in 1865 predicted persistent Southern prejudice against them #corroborates (0.95)