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Book Review


Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. By Karen Ferguson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvi, 336 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2701-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5370-4.)
Atlanta once styled itself as a city too busy to hate. It also had an African American community too divided to overthrow this stereotype. This divide between a mostly conservative African American elite and more radical black Atlantans undermined the civil rights struggle in the city during the 1960s. The divide is all too visible today in the economic gulf between those African Americans who have profited from citizenship and those who remain in the so-called underclass. In Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta, Karen Ferguson investigates the origins of the divide, linking it directly to an era more commonly associated with bringing benefits to black southerners. . . .
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