Housing desegregation provoked thousands of documented violent attacks nationwide.

Evidence

In Chicago, from 1917 to 1921 there were 58 fire bombings of houses bought by African Americans in border areas where whites lived. In the first five years after World War II, there were 357 incidents reported against African Americans trying to buy or rent in white areas. In Philadelphia in the first six months of 1955, there were 213 violent incidents against African Americans seeking to move out of the ghetto. In Los Angeles, there were fire bombings, dynamiting, vandalism, and the murder of an entire family who had moved into a white neighborhood from a dynamite explosion. More recently, in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1985, a black family bought a house in the all-white suburb of Sylvania. The first night, their house was firebombed. A month later, the house was destroyed in an arson attack. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 481

Categorization

• CANDY: Hard, quotable numbers — 213 incidents in six months of 1955 Philadelphia — that land instantly without setup.
• XREF: connects to: Housing fears proved the most emotionally charged white grievance for extremists to exploit. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 104; Geographically intermixed groups within states erupt into repeated communal violence — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 698; Anti-Chinese violence killed hundreds and expelled thousands from western homes — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2966 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Geographically intermixed groups within states erupt into repeated communal violence #expands (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 698
• Anti-Chinese violence killed hundreds and expelled thousands from western homes #exemplifies (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2966
• Mass attacks push dehumanization to its most extreme beastly form. #complicates (0.85)
• Media framing of attacks raises the ambient level of bigotry driving hate crimes #complicates (0.75) — Irene Zempi and Imran Awan, Islamophobia, 119