White violence against black schools only stopped when it created economic self-harm
Evidence
After a week of violence, many blacks fled for safety and, in so doing, created a labor shortage. This prompted the “good white people of the community” to demand an end to the violence. Moore was forced to close her training school and suspend work in Baton Rouge.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 477
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes nonviolence literature showing white repression yielded only when economic cost outweighed ideological gain. — connects to: Racial violence directly suppressed black business formation and wealth — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 449; Racial violence after slavery deliberately suppressed black business formation. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 449; White supremacy is economically and geopolitically self-harmful — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 668
Broader Connections
- White supremacy is economically and geopolitically self-harmful
#qualifies(0.78) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 668 - Racial violence directly suppressed black business formation and wealth
#qualifies(0.74) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 449 - Racial violence after slavery deliberately suppressed black business formation.
#qualifies(0.72) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 449