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<b>A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction<br> <br> A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. </b><br><p>If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?</p> <p>In <i>By Hands Now Known</i>, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow er
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- Author
- Margaret A. Burnham
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W.; W. W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393867862
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Law, Social Science, History
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (123 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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