Rage in the Gate City

by Burns, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780820333076
• ISBN10: 0820333077
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

Rage in the Gate City is a fast-paced and vididly detailed account of the Atlanta race riot of 1906, during which roving groups of whites attacked and killed at least twenty-five blacks. As June Dobbs Butts writes in her foreword, "For too long, this chapter of Atlanta's history was covered up, or was explained away. ... Rebecca Burns casts the bright light of truth upon those events." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Rebecca Burns is editor in chief of Atlanta Magazine, which has won numerous regional and national awards under her direction.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Notes on Language and Sources	p. xi
Introduction Atlanta, 1906	p. 1
A Lynching in Lakewood	p. 9
Politics of Fear	p. 15
The Gate City	p. 23
The Truck Farmer's Wife	p. 41
Harpers Ferry	p. 45
Incident at Coperhill	p. 56
Pastor Proctor's Sermon	p. 63
Two Meetings and One Party	p. 74
Low Dives and Blind Tigers	p. 83
Celebration	p. 90
A Visit from William Jennings Bryan	p. 101
Orrie Bryan's Story	p. 106
"Extra! Extra!"	p. 111
Rage	p. 118
Fighting Back	p. 131
Attack on Brownsville	p. 139
Negotiations	p. 145
What Happened to Max Barber	p. 153
On Trial	p. 159
Christmas Unease	p. 166
Epilogue Atlanta, 2006	p. 171
Notes	p. 177
Selected Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 203
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