"Reaping The Whirlwind" by Robert J. Norrell

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"Robert J. Norrell, in Reaping the Whirlwind, examines the suggestion that Tuskegee, Alabama, was a "model of racial harmony" from the 1880s to the late 1960s. This study will argue that although many whites and some blacks did feel that their community was such a model of harmony, Tuskegee was in fact not such a model.

Norrell reveals, in fact, that Tuskegee was a thoroughly segregated community consisting of one powerful white sector and one politically impotent black sector. The veneer of harmony held up by many whites and some socioeconomically privileged blacks masked a deep racial disharmony. Whites claimed that blacks registered in the conservative Democratic party were evidence of harmony, but in fact the evidence is that the rolls were manipulated by whites. The struggle that emerged when racial..."

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