Book Discussion: By Hands Now Known by Margaret Burnham

A facilitated discussion of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham, hosted in partnership with the Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition, Northern Orange NAACP, and Orange County Justice United.

A finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, By Hands Now Known shines a light on the many ways the Jim Crow legal system facilitated acts of racial intimidation, violence, and murder in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on a databases of more than 1,000 cases collected over the course of a decade, the book is equal parts historical analysis and a call for reparations.      

Margaret A. Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, is an internationally recognized expert on civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. In 2022, the U.S. Senate approved President Joe Biden's nomination of Professor Burnham to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board, which is tasked with investigating the unsolved murders of African Americans between 1940 and 1979.

Join us for this discussion and then see Professor Burnham speak in person at Flyleaf Books on Saturday, Dec. 2.