![]() ![]() In place of statistics - there is not a single chart or graph in this 599-page book - one finds folktales, church hymns, blues songs, prison records, oral histories, scrapbooks, private diaries, newspaper accounts, and assorted public records. The earlier book employed a mountain of evidence to capture the determination of former slaves seeking to exercise their liberty in meaningful ways. Trouble in Mind continues the narrative begun in Leon Litwack's previous book, Been in the Storm So Long, which followed the lives of black Southerners during the years of Civil War and Reconstruction. The decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed a dramatic rise in racial violence and repression throughout the South. This prediction proved accurate - and the consequences severe. "We are not the Negro from whom the chains of slavery fell a quarter of a century ago," the newspaper claimed, "most assuredly not" (p. This, in turn, had bred a new generation of whites, "even more hostile and bitter than the older ones." The South was moving toward confrontation, it appeared, and there was no turning back. To its thinking, a new generation of Negroes had emerged, less patient and fearful than before. ![]() In 1889, the student newspaper at Fisk, a black university in Nashville, predicted a major shift in race relations in the post-Reconstruction South. ![]() Trouble In Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. ![]()
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