| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City. By Gregory Mixon. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi, 197 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2787-X.)

Atlanta was the home of Henry Grady, the New South booster who sought to persuade northerners that the race question could be left safely with white southerners. Atlanta was also the site of Booker T. Washington's famous speech ("The Atlanta Compromise," 1895) accepting a new racial settlement. But in 1906, a major riot in Atlanta showed black southerners that their place was neither safe nor settled even in the most modern of southern cities. During three bloody September days, white mobs killed at least thirty black men and women, injured many more, and destroyed any number of black homes and businesses. In The Atlanta Riot, Gregory Mixon investigates the long- and short-term causes of the violence and its impact on race relations in the capital of the New South.

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