By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

352 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?In By Hands N...

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