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“They rushed to see and hear African-American musicians, mimicked black dances, and glorified black style while, in private, they retained their disdainful view of Negroes,” Watkins writes. “Even as they violently suppressed black efforts to advance in education & employment, and exercise their lawful rights, whites turned to the black community as a model for their rebellion against puritanical rural values”