How Long to Read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

How Long Does it Take to Read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction 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 formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From...

How long is By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners?

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham is 327 pages long, and a total of 84,039 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 39 minutes to read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners aloud.

What Reading Level is By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners?

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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