Officials linked black-white residential borders in Atlanta to imminent racial bloodshed.

Evidence

“In those border areas where Negroes and whites live close together,” Assistant Attorney General Dan Duke warned, “we have a potential powder keg that could break forth any day in bloodshed.” A liberal ally of the Hartsfield coalition, Duke aggressively moved to revoke the Columbians’ charter, on the grounds that the group was “peddling hatred and intolerance among our people.” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 117