Trouble in Mind

Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

Leon F. Litwack

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Random House USA Inc
15 September 1999

History of the Americas

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.

By: Leon F. Litwack
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780375702631
ISBN 10: 0375702636
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 15 September 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

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

""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 ""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