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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his

Throughout much of the twentieth century, Florida’s warm climate and long sunny days managed to attract the nation’s elites. The

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation