During the Jim Crow era, racial tension was at an unprecedented level. Many Caucasians, as well as a small number of African Americans, believed that tensions between whites and blacks could be repealed through the practice of "good race relations." The practice of “good race relations” was racial harmonization and unity between the interests of African Americans and their white counterparts. Some believed that this practice would create a society in which African Americans and whites could live in a state of tranquility. However, “good race relations” would allow African Americans to speak out against the mistreatment they suffered during the Jim Crow era and keep them in “the Negro place.” Any form of African American protest, voting, or political agitation that might challenge the social hierarchical system of the time was considered a practice of “bad race relations.” The two most successful events in African American history, the Reconstruction period following the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement, ignored the practice of "good race relations »....