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Preface

Teaching and living in Atlanta, Georgia, in the black community of Spelman College and its environs, observing the growing resistance to racial segregation in the city, I began to write about what I saw. My first published article, in Harper’s Magazine, reflected my thoughts about the possibilities for change in what had seemed a society impenetrable and intransigent. When I traveled to Albany, Georgia, to write a report on the mass demonstrations of the black population in that city, I was forced to reflect further on the nature of the American South. As a white person close to black people in my college and in the movement, I felt that I was in a special position to reflect on white-black relations and their future. I began to reject the notion of a South totally different from the rest of the nation, and this book as an attempt to argue that thesis.