Trade Paperback
1999 · New York
by Litwack, Leon F
New York: Vintage Books, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x1x8. Reprint. Minor general wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. xxi, 599 pp. 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 injusticesâboth institutional and personalâinflicted against a people. Here, too, are the Black men and women whose activism, literature, and music preserved the genius of the human spirit. (Inventory #: 2337676)