Open housing drew racists, assimilationists, and antiracists into one diverse coalition

Evidence

The open housing movement featured a motley collection of folks. There were upwardly mobile Blacks and antiracist housing activists struggling for better housing options. There were racist Blacks who hated living in neighborhoods with inferior Black folks and dreamed of living next to superior White folks. And there were assimilationists who believed that integrated neighborhoods could facilitate uplift suasion, improve race relations, and solve the nation’s racial problems. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 917

Categorization

• DEFINE: Models how to sort a real historical movement’s factions into Kendi’s three-way scheme — directly useful for the reader’s practice of placing arguments.
• XREF: Applies the segregationist/assimilationist/antiracist typology to a concrete coalition, extending the scheme established in earlier chapters. — connects to: Segregationist hate groups recruited in transitional neighborhoods threatened by racial housing change — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 113