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By Hands Now Known

Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
  • Margaret A. Burnham
2022
W. W. Norton & Co.

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Featured Excerpts

  • A crowd of African Americans watches a group of law enforcement officers.
    Q&A

    A Record of Violence

    Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
    by Jeanne Theoharis, Margaret A. Burnham via Boston Review on July 26, 2023
  • Howard University students protesting outside the Attorney General’s Conference on Crime held at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1934. The four-day conference failed to include lynching in its program.
    Book Review

    A Regional Reign of Terror

    Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
    by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2023
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