| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations. By David Fort Godshalk. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xviii, 365 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2962-5. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5626-6.)

Few monographs can divine national repercussions from local events, largely because local events rarely have transcendent significance. As David Fort Godshalk compellingly argues, examining Atlanta's 1906 race riot reveals how one searing local trauma—a racial pogrom incited by false white accounts of black-on-white rapes—reconfigured both local and national understandings of America's "race problem." Focusing mostly on white and black elites, with sensitivity to gender issues and with close attention to class conflict (if not to the underclass itself), Godshalk recounts the riot, how white and black elites struggled against each other and within their racial cohorts over the memory of the riot, and how these contested memories led locally to the emergence of the "Atlanta Plan" for race relations and nationally to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) legal assault on segregation.

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