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By Hands Now Known - Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (Hardcover)
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By Hands Now Known - Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (Hardcover)
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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 series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From
rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other
states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and
federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in
enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system
in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line
from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to
today. Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a
decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals
the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of
those whose stories have not yet been heard.
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