White resistance groups bombed black newcomers when threats failed

Evidence

Seeing that threats had failed, the WECC decided to abandon negotiations and resort to violence. Their next chance came in March, when a black beautician, Rose Torrence, purchased a home at 369 Ashby Street, just two doors north of the intersection of Sells and Ashby. Wallace and Harris confronted the new owner immediately. “Mr. Wallace asked me was I the owner of the house,” Torrence recalled. “I said yes, then he questioned me about my moving in. He said that it wasn’t advisable for me to do so because they were going to bomb it. Then the other white man said that if I moved in I would be running my own funeral.” The house exploded that night. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 136

Categorization

• QUESTION: Were the threats and the bombing documented anywhere beyond Torrence’s lone testimony, and how typical was such police inaction in Atlanta’s white resistance cases?
• XREF: connects to: Threats and Klan intimidation failed to stop black-home-selling whites. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 153; White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479; Black economic success itself triggered hostile white-supremacist reaction — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 268

Broader Connections

• White neighbors terrorized Black families until they fled white neighborhoods. #expands (0.82) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479
• Threats and Klan intimidation failed to stop black-home-selling whites. #corroborates (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 153
• Black economic success itself triggered hostile white-supremacist reaction #expands (0.74) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 268