Trouble in Mind

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 Statesand 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 2000 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 injusticesboth institutional and personalinflicted against a people. Here too are the Black men and women whose activism literature and music preserved the genius of the human spirit.