1906 Atlanta Race Massacre
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  1. ScholarlyNational Center for Civil and Human Rights, “The Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906: A brief history”

  2. ScholarlyClifford Kuhn and Gregory Mixon, “Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906,” New Georgia Encyclopedia (2005; revised 2022)

Contemporary sources, 1906-1907

  1. PrimaryW. E. B. Du Bois, “A Litany of Atlanta,” The Independent, 11 October 1906

  2. PrimaryAtlanta Evening News, 21 September 1906, the editorial printed the day before

  3. PrimaryThe Atlanta Constitution, 23–25 September 1906

  4. PrimaryFulton County Grand Jury presentment, 28 September 1906

  5. PrimaryJ. Max Barber, “The Atlanta Tragedy” and “Why Mr. Barber Left Atlanta,” The Voice, October 1906, 470–479

  6. PrimaryRay Stannard Baker, “Following the Color Line: A Race Riot, and After,” The American Magazine LXIII:6, April 1907

  7. PrimaryLe Petit Journal, 7 October 1906, and Le Petit Parisien, 14 October 1906 (Paris)

  8. PrimaryWalter White, A Man Called White (Viking, 1948)

  9. PrimaryBooker T. Washington, address to the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, 18 September 1895, printed in Up From Slavery (Doubleday, 1901)

  10. PrimaryW. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (A. C. McClurg, 1903), written while teaching at Atlanta University

  11. PrimaryNiagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905

  12. PrimaryEvelyn Witherspoon oral history, interviewed by Clifford Kuhn, 13 March 1979, for Living Atlanta

Books and scholarship

  1. ScholarlyMark Bauerlein, Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (Encounter Books, 2001)

  2. ScholarlyCarole Merritt, The Herndons: An Atlanta Family (University of Georgia Press, 2002)

  3. ScholarlyAllison Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875–1906 (University of Georgia Press, 2004)

  4. ScholarlyGregory Mixon, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City (University Press of Florida, 2005)

  5. ScholarlyDavid Fort Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

  6. ScholarlyRebecca Burns, Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot (Emmis, 2006)

  7. ScholarlyCharles Crowe, “Racial Violence and Social Reform: Origins of the Atlanta Riot of 1906,” Journal of Negro History, July 1968, 234–56; and “Racial Massacre in Atlanta, September 22, 1906,” JNH 54:2, April 1969, 150–73

  8. ScholarlyJohn Dittmer, Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1977)

  9. ScholarlyGary M. Pomerantz, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn (Scribner, 1996)

  10. ScholarlyFranklin M. Garrett, Atlanta and Environs (Lewis Historical Publishing, 1954)

Archives and repositories

  1. ArchiveAtlanta History Photograph Collection, Atlanta History Center

  2. ArchiveLibrary of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. The source for the archival photographs on this site

  3. ArchiveW. E. B. Du Bois, albums compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle (LOT 11930), Library of Congress

  4. ArchiveHistoric American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. Herndon & Atlanta Life Building, 229-243 Auburn Avenue, HABS GA-1170-A

  5. ArchiveDigital Library of Georgia

  6. ArchiveGeorgia Archives, “Resource Guide: 1906 Atlanta Race Riots”

  7. ArchiveAuburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

  8. ArchivedigATL, Georgia State University, “Veiled Visions: The 1906 Race Riot”

  9. ArchiveFulton County Remembrance Coalition, Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 narrative

  10. ArchiveEqual Justice Initiative, Community Remembrance Project

On the naming of the dead

  1. ArchiveNational Center for Civil and Human Rights, “Unearthing the Past: Identifying Victims of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre”

  2. ScholarlyNational Council on Public History, “History lost and found: Atlanta’s 1906 race riot and the Coalition to Remember”

  3. Journalism“Setting the record straight on 1906,” The Atlanta Voice

From the Coalition

  1. Archive1906 Exposition Week Schedule, v.4, 9 August 2026. The source for every date, time and venue on this site

  2. ArchiveBoard of Directors & Leadership Roster, 6 August 2026. The source for the names, titles and roles published under The Coalition

  3. ArchiveVision, Mission and Key Points, supplied 9 August 2026 and reproduced word for word

  4. Archive“Never Again: The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre,” directed by Rev. Trent Frank, FrankinSense Productions LLC. Trailer and stills used by permission