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”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
1. Baptisms
2. Lessons
3. Working
4. White Folks: Scriptures
5. White Folks: Acts
6. Hellhounds
7. Enduring
8. Crossroads
Epilogue
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