بأيدي معروفة الآن: جلادي جيم كرو القانونيين

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that supported it, and its lasting legacy, by a distinguished legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from lynching, isn't lynching the law itself? In her book By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, explores our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and prevailing legal norms in a series of horrific cases that occurred between 1920 and 1960. From extradition, the legal process by which states demand that other states return their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction, and the exaggerated role played by county police in enforcing racial hierarchies, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, tracing the continuous line from slavery to the legal structures of the period to the present day. Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and including more than 1,000 cases of racial violence, it reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have yet to be heard.