A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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For every civil rights martyr like Emmett Till, there were many other Black Americans who were brutalized or killed by racist violence in the early 20th century and remain largely unknown. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Professor Margaret Burnham, author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. This new book unravels many of the lesser known stories of racist violence, the perpetrators, victims, and survivors. It’s also offering descendants of victims a platform, and an opportunity to fill in the blanks of their family history. Guest: Professor Margaret Burnham, author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. For decades, after
0:08.0	the end of slavery, black Americans lived under the constant threat of racist violence.
0:12.8	Not just from police, but from all white citizens, for real or perceived challenges to Jim
0:18.1	Crow. Now, a new book shares the stories of some of those victims.
0:22.0	African Americans resisted Jim Crow. And sometimes their resistance was, they didn't say yes,
0:27.9	sir. They just said yes. And for that, you could die.
0:31.7	The author of by hands now known Jim Crow's legal executioners coming up on a word with
0:37.5	me Jason Johnson. Stay with us.
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1:15.1	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, impolitics and everything else. I'm your host, Jason
1:19.3	Johnson. Many Americans would mark the murder of George Floyd as the turning point in how
1:23.8	we as a nation view and discuss police violence targeting black folks. But for decades, murders
1:29.0	by police or by white people who took it upon themselves to enforce white supremacy went
1:34.1	largely unreported by the press and uninvestigated by authorities. Now many of those stories are
1:39.1	being widely told for the first time in a new book by hands now known Jim Crow's legal
1:44.8	executioners. The author is Margaret Burnham. She's a distinguished professor of law at
1:50.2	northeastern university and the founding director of its civil rights and restorative justice
1:54.6	project. She was also appointed by president Biden to serve on the civil rights cold case
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