Leon F Litwack: 2 books
Trouble in Mind
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
"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...
Been in the Storm So Long
The Aftermath of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...