audiobook Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell in History

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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 of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured."--C. Vann WoodwardIn 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.With the same narrative skill he brought to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long; Leon Litwack constructs a searing history of life under Jim Crow. Drawing on new documentation and first-person accounts by blacks and whites; he 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 their human spirit. Painstakingly researched; important; and timely; Trouble in Mind 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."Moving; elegant; earthy and pointed. . . . It forces us to reckon with the tragic legacies of freedom as well as of slavery. And it reminds us of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit." --Steven Hahn; The San Diego Union-Tribune"A chilling reminder of how simple it has been for Americans to delude themselves about the power of race." --The Raleigh News Observer