Politicians weaponized heavily black neighborhoods like Ashby Street as slurs in 1946

Evidence

When segregationists sought to paint Helen Mankin as the “Negro candidate” in the 1946 elections, for instance, they simply dubbed her “the Belle of Ashby Street.” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 105

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘Belle of Ashby Street’ epithet is a vivid, self-contained vignette about how segregationists tarred a candidate by association.