Orem Library

The author shares his views of black thought and the conditions of black life in America during the 1940's and early 1950's.

Follows two men--both of whom went to the same school and fought in the same war, but who never met because one was white and one was black--as they meet fifty years after World War II and join forces to tell young people why race once made all the difference--and why it shouldn't matter anymore.

Presents a life of the African American journalist who was born a slave and went on to become a respected teacher and journalist, and who is best remembered for her campaign through her writings to eliminate lynching in the United States.

"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...