Black saloons, white Atlanta residents felt, were the root of an awful lot of evil — vagrancy, loitering, and attacks on the white population, particularly white women. Ironically, it was drunken white residents pouring out of white saloons who would cause the all the havoc in this case (The Atlanta Race Riots, 1906).
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