Steven Hahn, The San Diego Union-Tribune And it reminds us of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit." It forces us to reckon with the tragic legacies of freedom as well as of slavery. 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. Here, too, are the black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of their human spirit. Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts by blacks and whites, he describes the injustices-both institutional and personal-inflicted against a people. 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. His body was sold piecemeal to souvenir seekers an Atlanta grocery displayed his knuckles in its front window for a week. Wrongly accused of raping the man's wife, Hose was mutilated, stabbed, and burned alive in front of 2,000 cheering whites. In April 1899, black laborer Sam Hose killed his white boss in self-defense. "The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured." Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." -The Washington Post Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. "The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America.
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