By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library * One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2022
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 ...






















