By hands now known Jim Crow's legal executioners
"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 Northea...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "A new version of the old, old story"
- "Mr. Ford's place"
- "That dusky hospital on DeVilliers Street"
- Bentonia blues
- The one-way ride on Airline Highway
- Resisting rendition
- Who stays up north, who goes back down south
- The Color Board
- POB Noxubee, POD back of the bus
- A Bus in Hayti
- "Us colored . . . sat where we wanted to"
- Double V on the bus
- The departments : war and justice
- The "Negro Transportation" File
- Reconstruction statutes, Jim Crow Rules
- "Her hips looked like battered liver"
- "A little quick on the trigger"
- "The testimony . . . of the Negroes seems more probable"
- "Head . . . soft as a piece of cotton"
- "None of Washington's business"
- "Look to the states"
- A "patently local crime"
- "Victim . . . of a quarrelsome nature"
- "Bad Birmingham"
- Negroes are restless
- "Mr. Van"
- "Negro youth, shot near white residence, dies"
- Abduction
- "Negro leaders cry for justice in kidnap outrage"
- Black captive, white capture
- Redress
- "Found floating in river . . . cause of death unknown"
- "A fight with some sailors"
- Owed? What? And by whom?
- Epilogue.
