Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow NeighborhoodsWhite supremacists determined what African Americans could do and where they could go in the Jim Crow South, but they were less successful in deciding where black people could live because different groups of white supremacists did not agree on the question of residential segregation. In Threatening Property, Elizabeth A. Herbin Triant investigates early twentieth century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the