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With racism so much in the news, this might be timely, from "The Nation: Democratic Vistas," by James Agee, 1945.
In the window of a gas station-soda fountain in McFarland, California (pop. 603), appeared a wobbly hand-made sign, "Colored Trade Not Solisited at Fountain."
...The general attitude toward racial problems was most sadly expressed by the more thoughtful Southerners, who said they only wished they could spend the next few years where there weren't any Negroes.
The second is particularly notable, considering it was the Southerners who were mainly responsible for dragging them here.
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