Leon F. Litwack's Books

How Free Is Free?

The Long Death of Jim Crow

By: Leon F. Litwack

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How Free Is Free?

The Long Death of Jim Crow

By: Leon F. Litwack

This title traces continuing racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom for African American's in America. It tells how despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain.

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214

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Harvard University Press

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ISBN 10

0674031520

ISBN 13

9780674031524

Trouble in Mind

Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By: Leon F. Litwack

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Trouble in Mind

Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

By: Leon F. Litwack

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 the Pulitzer 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.

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642

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Vintage

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ISBN 10

0375702636

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9780375702631

Been in the Storm So Long

The Aftermath of Slavery

By: Leon F. Litwack

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Been in the Storm So Long

The Aftermath of Slavery

By: Leon F. Litwack

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 War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." Contents 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom Comin' 4. Slaves No More 5. How Free is Free? 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency 9. The Gospel and the Primer 10. Becoming a People

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673

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Vintage

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0307773612

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9780307773616

North of Slavery

The Negro in the Free States

By: Leon F. Litwack

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North of Slavery

The Negro in the Free States

By: Leon F. Litwack

. . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar

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