Reviews
"Ought to be mandatory reading for those students of Southern history who confine themselves to Civil War gallantry."
--Charlotte Observer
"The definitive treatment of the 1906 Atlanta race riot"
"Mixon's trim text provides succinct analysis of the cuases, action, and resolution of the riot that immobilized the 'city too busy to hate' in the fall of 1906."
--Georgia Historical Quarterly
"Tells an important story about the tightening grip of white domination over African American life in Atlanta."
--Journal of American Ethnic History
"Intriguingly suggests that southern urban white elites both provoked white violence against African Americans, and sought to distance themselves from the social mayhem of that violence. Mixon's book amply repays reading for its meticulous documentation of that insight and for its status as the most comprehensive available analysis of the 1906 Atlanta Riot."
--American Historical Review
"Mixon's detailed account of the riot is superb. Interesting narrative and skillful prose make this account of the riot highly useful to historians of urbanization and twentieth-century race relations."
--The North Carolina Historical Review
"With Mixon's gem of a volume, we understand the influence of ideas on mobs and the power of mobs to inspire ideas like the rule of law, which presented one of the best hopes for overcoming racial violence."
--The Journal of Southern History
"Clear and concise, yet wide-ranging in its approach… Mixon connects the Atlanta story with the wider history of urbanization and violence in the New South."
--Journal of American History
:An excellent account of the sequnce of events that led to the Atalnta riot of 1906 . . . A highly competent scholarly work, which shows how the history of riots and violence should be written."
--The Journal of Social History
…clearly demonstrates the methods of the white elite in achieving a racial dominance in Atlanta that made it a "prototype metropolis of twentieth-century America."
--Historian
Comparing the Atlanta riot with those in cities such as Wilmington, Mixon provides national context for racial violence.
--The Historian
…The Atlanta Riot reveals a southern "progressive" city strained by race, economics, urbanization, industrialization, and a bitter struggle for political control at the beginning of the 20th century. …outstanding, detailed, and thoughtful historical analysis of the early 20th century American race relations, urbanization, industrialization, and southern history.
--The Journal of African American History
…reveals a southern "progressive" city strained by race, economics, urbanization, industrialization, and a bitter struggle for political control at the beginning of the 20th century.
--The Journal of African American History
…reveals a southern "progressive" city strained by race, economics, urbanization, industrialization, and a bitter struggle for political control at the beginning of the 20th Century.
--The Journal of African American History