Trouble in Mind by Leon F Litwack
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 The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured.--C. Vann Woodward 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. With the same narrative skill he brought to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long, Leon Litwack constructs a searing history of life under Jim Crow. Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts by blacks and whites, he 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 their human spirit. Painstakingly researched, important, and timely, Trouble in Mind 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. Moving, elegant, earthy and pointed. . . . It forces us to reckon with the tragic legacies of freedom as well as of slavery. And it reminds us of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit.
--Steven Hahn, The San Diego Union-Tribune A chilling reminder of how simple it has been for Americans to delude themselves about the power of race. --The Raleigh News & Observer
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 |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1999-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
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