Trouble in Mind Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow |
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| Author:
| Litwack, Leon F. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-375-70263-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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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 thePulitzer 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...
More Description 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 thePulitzer 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.