These days, it's popular to bemoan the fact that Washington has fallen into disfavor. But it wasn't blacks who proved the Atlanta Compromise fraudulent—it was the whites of that era.
Political, social, and demographic forces in the battleground of North Carolina promise a reckoning with its Jim Crow past.
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