By Hands Now Known

Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By: Margaret A. Burnham

Narrated by: Diana Blue

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 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.

©2022 Margaret Burnham (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Extremely pronounced and telling read.

I highly recommend this reading for all American citizens, trying to understand the true history of Jim Crow America.

a history that lives today

by hands now known rivals just mercy in capturing the stories behind the atrocities. well written and performed.

eyes opened

I have been awakened!

this book draws clear lines across our history and gives us an upclose look at the insidious nature and spread of Jim Crow. I am proud and happy America has changed. I could not endure it.

Good book....

It is always good to know the past struggles but at times I ask myself, will it empower me or make me more upset at the conditions then, now and perhaps into the future..... good book but at the end of the day, not much changes, the racism merely mutates to a new form..,

Shout out to....
Bro Panic
Dr Phil Valentine
Bro C. Freeman El
Dr Josef Ben-Jochannan
Amen Ra KamKam
Dr Khallid Muhammad
Dr Ann Brown
Dr Delbert Blair
Dr Timothy Owens Moore
Dr Malachi Z York
Dr Chancellor Williams
Jordan Maxwell
Dr Ivan Van Sertima
Richard D King MD
Rev Ray Hagins
Zoe Williams
Young Pharaoh
PapaDuck
Runoko Rashidi
Dr Walter Williams
Grand Sheik Taj Tarik Bey
Bill Donahue
Bobby Hemmitt
Cheikh Anta Diop
Shahrazad Ali
Gabriel Oyibo
Kwame Ture
Amos Wilson
Marimba Ani

Truth

This should be mandatory reading for all American schools black and white especially since not much has changed