Racial Violence and Social Reform-Origins of the Atlanta Riot of 1906

@article{Crowe1968RacialVA,
  title={Racial Violence and Social Reform-Origins of the Atlanta Riot of 1906},
  author={Charles Crowe},
  journal={The Journal of Negro History},
  year={1968},
  volume={53},
  pages={234 - 256}
}
  • C. Crowe
  • Published 1 July 1968
  • History
  • The Journal of Negro History
*Dr. Crowe, a former Fulbright lecturer at the University of Kiel and Guest Professor at the Free University of Berlin, is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. The author of George Ripley, Transcendentalist and Utopian Socialist, The Age of Civil War and Reconstruction and other books and articles, Dr. Crowe is now completing a study on "Racial Violence and Repression in the Progressive Era." 
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