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OBD Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist Nonfiction 2023 - Adult
OBD These Books Deserve a Hand!
True Black History
OBD These Books Deserve a Hand!
True Black History
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"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 Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between...
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