Virtual Book Club: March 2026
Thu, Mar 26
|Virtual Book Club
Join us as we discuss "By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners" by Margaret A. Burnham
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Virtual Book Club
About the event
Get mobilized with SCADP and the SC Christian Action Council with our Virtual Book Club!
Bring your favorite beverage as we discuss this compilation of real-life stories. You are not required to read the book for the event and are encouraged to purchase the book at your local bookseller or borrow it from your local library!
Book Summary:
A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionOne of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers WeeklyA 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…