“Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future,” by Atticus Haygood (1881)
In the 1880s, Southern segregationists marketed their region as the New South, among them this Methodist bishop and Emory College president. In his popular book, Haygood eased consciences that the end of Reconstruction meant the end of black rights. The New South will be as good for black folk as the old, Haygood declared, as new white Southerners would continue to civilize inferior black folk in their nicely segregated free-labor society.

From a list by historian Ibrahim X. Kendi in the New York Times.