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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781324066057 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 09/05/2023 |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 186,975 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Part I Rendition
1 "A New Version of the Old, Old Story" 3
2 "Mr. Ford's Place" 10
3 "That Dusky Hospital on DeVilliers Street" Pensacola to Black Bottom 15
4 Bentonia Blues Yazoo County to Black Bottom 30
5 The One-Way Ride on Airline Highway Crescent City to Black Bottom 45
6 Resisting Rendition Legal Strategies and Political Advocacy 55
7 Who Stays Up North, Who Goes Back Down South 62
Part II Raced Transpotation
8 The Color Board 73
9 POB Noxubee, POD Back of the Bus 78
10 A Bus in Hayti 85
11 "Us Colored … Sat Where "We Wanted To" 99
12 Double V on the Bus 108
13 The Departments: War and Justice 114
14 The "Negro Transportation" File 118
Part III Paterollers and Prosecutors
15 Reconstruction Statutes, Jim Crow Rules 125
16 "Her Hips Looked Like Battered Liver" Tuskegee in the Middle District 130
17 "A Little Quick on the Trigger" Union Springs in the Middle District 136
18 "The Testimony … of the Negroes Seems More Probable" Tuskegee in the Middle District 140
19 "Head … Soft as a Piece of Cotton" Lafayette in the Middle District 147
20 "None of Washington's Business" 153
Part IV The Screws Effect
Racial Violence in the Supreme Court
21 "Look to the States" 167
22 A "Patently Local Crime" 173
23 "Victim … of a Quarrelsome Nature" 179
Part V Black Protest Matters
24 "Bad Birmingham" 189
25 Negroes are Restless 194
26 "Mr. Van" 199
27 "Negro Youth, Shot Near White Residence, Dies" 209
Part VI "He That Stealeth a Man"
28 Abduction Southwest Mississippi 221
29 "Negro Leaders Cry for Justice in Kidnap Outrage" 230
30 Black Captive, White Capture 235
Part VII "A Mint of Blood and Sorrow"
31 Redress The Problem of the Twenty-First Century 241
32 "Found Floating in River … Cause Of Death Unknown" 245
33 "A Fight With Some Sailors" 255
34 Owed? What? and by Whom? 262
Epilogue 273
Acknowledgments 277
Notes 283
Illustration Credits 319
Index 321