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Trouble in Mind by Leon F Litwack

A searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States--and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Been in the Storm So Long.

"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America.... Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy."  --The Washington Post

In April 1899, Black laborer Sam Hose killed his white boss in self-defense. Wrongly accused of raping the man's wife, Hose was mutilated, stabbed, and burned alive in front of 2,000 cheering whites. His body was sold piecemeal to souvenir seekers; an Atlanta grocery displayed his knuckles in its front window for a week.

Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts, Litwack describes the injustices--both institutional and personal--inflicted against a people. Here, too, are the Black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of the human spirit.

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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Era of Jim Crow, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 are all Pulitzer Prize-winning books by Leon F. Litwack, PhD. He is the Alexander F. Parkman Prize winner, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Outstanding Teaching Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Cinema Grant, and is the Alexander F. Parkman Prize winner. May T. Morrison is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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ISBN 13 9780375702631
ISBN 10 0375702636
Title Trouble in Mind
Author Leon F Litwack
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1999-07-27
Number of pages 640
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.