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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By Margaret A. Burnham
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Unabridged — 10 hours, 59 minutes
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By Margaret A. Burnham
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Unabridged — 10 hours, 59 minutes
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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 Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a ser...