White neighbors harassed Black homebuyers in racially integrated 1970s Mississippi.
Evidence
About a week later, the children of the neighbors in the back shot out the patio window with a pellet gun. My dad responded by shooting a twelve-gauge shotgun in the air as fair warning. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 134
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479; Everyday harassment failing to force black homebuyers out escalated whites toward lethal violence. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 126; Whites who sold to blacks faced threats and harassment from their own neighbors — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 220 (+10 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479; Everyday harassment failing to force black homebuyers out escalated whites toward lethal violence. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 126; Whites who sold to blacks faced threats and harassment from their own neighbors — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 220 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Threats and Klan intimidation failed to stop black-home-selling whites.
#complicates(0.81) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 153 - Black homebuyers with no alternative housing effectively resisted segregationist intimidation.
#complicates(0.79) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 135