Undocumented, Unpunished Murders During Jim Crow - Margaret Burnham (Part 1)
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Professor Margaret Burnham teaches law at Northeastern University and is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law. A civil rights lawyer, a defense attorney and a judge, she is the author of the new book:By Hands Not Known:Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
Between 1920~1960 in the South there is a piece of history that is both forgotten and overlooked: 1,000 cases of racial violence and death. The stories in this riveting book are a call to recognize the horrific injustice which occurred. The book highlights a legal system which lacked justice for the victims and accountability for the offenders.
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