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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
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on March 16, 2023
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