A review by sparklefarm
The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City by Jim Schutze

5.0

(Read for the "Big D Reads" initiative.) Although I've lived in the Dallas area for the majority of my life, this history of tokenist accommodation to Black residents was all completely new to me. (I mean, but not surprising.) I knew about the Klan revival in the 1920s and could guess about the general racist atmosphere of the midcentury. But seeing all that, along with the foot-dragging of Dallas leaders, plainly documented was astonishing. Although this book was written in 1987 and has not been revised, the threads leading to present-day Dallas are obvious. This is a must-read for Dallasites.