Rage in the Gate City [electronic resource] : the story of the 1906 Atlanta race riot / Rebecca Burns.
Material type:
- Race riots -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
- Racism -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
- Civic leaders -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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- F294.A89 N426 2009eb
First edition: Cincinnati : Emmis Books, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201) and index.
Introduction : Atlanta, 1906 -- A lynching in Lakewood -- Politics of fear -- The Gate City -- The truck farmer's wife -- Harpers Ferry -- Incident at Copenhill -- Pastor Proctor's sermon -- Two meetings and one party -- Low dives and blind tigers -- Celebration -- A visit from William Jennings Bryan -- Orrie Bryan's story -- "Extra! Extra!" -- Rage -- Fighting back -- Attack on Brownsville -- Negotiations -- What happened to Max Barber -- On trial -- Christmas unease -- Epilogue: Atlanta, 2006.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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