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...... The American South saw remarkable changes in the years between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 [the end of reconstruction] and the Atlanta race riot of 1906. The landscape was transformed by the beginnings of large-scale industry, the emergence of small-town life, the spread of general stores, the sudden dominance of the railroad, and the decline of the countryside. Southern politics were redefined by segregation, disfranchisement, the Populist revolt, and the beginnings of progressivism. Southern culture was reconfigured by blues, jazz, gospel, and country music, the stirring of modern literature, the spread of popular sports and amusements, and the birth of new religious dominations. Things were seldom as simple as they appeared to later generations, for Southerners of every rank confronted the dilemmas brought by new opportunities and constraints. Many kinds of power operated in the South, some built on coercion and others built on persuasion, some consented to and some challenged, some private and some public. (Ayers vii)
In many ways the resolution of the conflict sin southern society, which had been entrenched by fear, based legal actions began their resolution at the beginning of WWI, when the need for soldiers, of all colors began to make both

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