| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906. By Mark Bauerlein. (San Francisco: Encounter, 2001. x, 337 pp. $25.95, ISBN 1-893554-23-6.)

According to the dust jacket, Mark Bauerlein's Negrophobia seeks "to uncover forgotten history and make a richly complex past, filled with promise and pain, come to life once again." Atlanta, Georgia, in 1906 was the "seat of black intellectual life and moderate white progressivism." He concludes the work arguing that Atlanta was the place where "organized racist aggression" and "vigilantism [that] emerged in 1915 as community wisdom" with the founding of the Ku Klux Klan was a direct result of the Atlanta riot nine years earlier. Bauerlein's focus is not on the near-decade interval between 1906 and 1915, but on the year December 8, 1905, to January 31, 1907. Within those months Bauerlein chronicles the coming of the Atlanta riot of 1906, a three-day conflagration, September 22–25, 1906, in which white people attacked black Atlantans. . . .

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