Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race RelationsIn 1906 Atlanta, after a summer of inflammatory headlines and accusations of black on white sexual assaults, armed white mobs attacked African Americans, resulting in at least twenty five black fatalities. Atlanta's black residents fought back and repeatedly defended their neighborhoods from white raids. Placing this four day riot in a broader narrative of twentieth century race relations in Atlanta, in the South, and in the United States, David Fort