White barricades to stop black expansion actually triggered nearby integration

Evidence

Two weeks later, their fears came true. Sources reported that blacks were closing deals on three homes on Lynhurst Drive, immediately west of the Peyton Forest neighborhood. According to alarmist press coverage, the sales represented a deliberate attempt to break through the roadblocks—a “flank attack” on the all-white neighborhood. “If those barricades hadn’t been put up,” an unnamed “Negro leader” was quoted as saying, “I don’t think Lynhurst would have been bothered.” As white residents expressed outrage, black real-estate agents claimed the story had been concocted by Southwest Citizens. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 22

Categorization

• QUESTION: The quote attributed to an unnamed ‘Negro leader’ seems fabricated or at least convenient to the white narrative—worth checking how Kruse sourced it.
• XREF: connects to: A pro-integration countermovement actively mobilized to support Charlotte’s desegregation — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 88; Closer proximity to whiteness can intensify exclusion rather than reduce it — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 29; Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 221 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Court-ordered removal of segregation barricades triggered immediate white abandonment of the neighborhood #qualifies (0.95) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 23
• Intransigent white resisters destroyed compromise efforts and sped neighborhood transition #corroborates (0.90) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 221
• Peace settlements can increase rather than reduce physical segregation barriers #exemplifies (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2285
• Residential transition fractured white communities along proximity-based lines of flight versus fight. #corroborates (0.84) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 210
• Proximity to black neighborhoods triggers white flight that intensifies with black population share. #complicates (0.82) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1046
• Closer proximity to whiteness can intensify exclusion rather than reduce it #expands (0.78) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 29
• Visible minority presence in white suburbs still triggers white flight #complicates (0.76) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 511