{"product_id":"trouble-in-mind-black-southerners-in-the-age-of-jim-crow-9780375702631","title":"Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eBeen in the Storm So Long.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America.... Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. \u003ci\u003eTrouble in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new documentation and first-person accounts, Litwack describes the injustices\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eboth institutional and personal\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003einflicted against a people. Here, too, are the Black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeon F. Litwack is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeen in the Storm So Long, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410797629714,"sku":"9780375702631","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f0452b33-fc65-4245-862b-0039a761278e.jpg?v=1729307530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trouble-in-mind-black-southerners-in-the-age-of-jim-crow-9780375702631","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}