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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

Litwack, Leon F.

Paperback

19th Century United States History20th Century United States HistoryBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0375702636
ISBN13: 9780375702631
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jul 27 1999
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.28 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
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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