Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods

by Elizabeth A Herbin-Triant and Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

Book Overview

White supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231189710
• ISBN13: 9780231189712
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"