Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375702631ISBN-10:375702636UPC:9780375702631Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, 19th Century, 20th CenturySize:8.06 x 5.22 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SCY18AM625
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375702631ISBN-10:375702636UPC:9780375702631Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, 19th Century, 20th CenturySize:8.06 x 5.22 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SCY18AM625
Leon F. Litwack is the author of Been in the Storm So Long, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Parkman Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Distinguished Teaching Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant, and is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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