Table of Contents

1. Baptisms
2. Lessons
3. Working
4. White Folks: Scriptures
5. White Folks: Acts
6. Hellhounds
7. Enduring
8. Crossroads

Epilogue

About the Author

Leon F. Litwack is the author of Been in the Storm So Long, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Parkman Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Distinguished Teaching Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant, and is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured." —C. Vann Woodward

"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