Whites who sold to blacks faced threats and harassment from their own neighbors

Evidence

As in other transition neighborhoods, those living near the new black homes, on Mayland Avenue and Mayland Circle, wanted out. Sara Snead, for instance, had been trying to sell her home on the white real-estate market for three years. “I put my house in the hands of three different agents,” she explained, “and they would say, well you know you can’t get very much for these houses as they are so close to the negroes.” Finally, she gave up and listed the house with a black realtist. Neighboring whites were outraged. They cursed the elderly widow and made angry phone calls at night. “Neighbors have threatened to ‘burn the house down,’ ” a report noted, “and warn her not to leave the house ‘or it might nor be there when you get back.’ ” But Snead was not the only one who had given up hope. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 220

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to the dynamics of white community enforcement and the costs whites imposed on each other to preserve segregation, useful counterpoint in the segregationist case study.
• XREF: connects to: Everyday harassment failing to force black homebuyers out escalated whites toward lethal violence. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 126; Segregationist leaders staged mob intimidation while posing as protectors to force black homebuyers out. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 133; Atlanta realtors formally obligated themselves not to sell to blacks in white areas — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 147 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• White neighbors harassed Black homebuyers in racially integrated 1970s Mississippi. #exemplifies (0.90)
• Expulsion campaigns forced black property owners to sell below market value #corroborates (0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 365
• Black beach property owners faced extralegal white harassment and intimidation #corroborates (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 344
• White homeowners performed community solidarity as a defensive strategy against desegregation #expands (0.78) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 190
• Terrorist violence against black farmers transferred their land to white neighbors with impunity #corroborates (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 312
• Black economic success itself triggered hostile white-supremacist reaction #expands (0.75) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 268
• Black property owners faced escalating tactics from covenants to eminent domain to lynching #expands (0.75) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 325