All students must complete a final essay, focused on cases they have researched or historical themes they have identified over the course of the semester, and these will be presented at Grand Rounds…
Emmett Till was lynched on August 28, 1955. This year marks the 70th anniversary of his killing. Margaret Burnham serves on The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, responsible for their release.
Emmett Till was lynched on August 28, 1955. This year marks the 70th anniversary of his killing. Margaret Burnham serves on The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, responsible for their release.
Hosea “Shant” Carter was killed in 1948, Marion County, Mississippi, and CRRJ has produced a documentary film about his son’s journey to uncover the truth behind his father’s lynching, revealing a harrowing legacy of racial terror, silence, and resilience.
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CRRJ hosted a first-of-its-kind, two-day conference, July 24-25, at Northeastern University’s Snell Library, to unveil updates to the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, and discuss pathways to creating an interoperable archive of anti-Black violence in partnership with similar archival and historical projects from across the U.S.
CRRJ joined a citywide memorial in Memphis honoring lives taken by the Memphis Police Department on June 21, 2025.
Raymond Wilkes first participated in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at Southern University a decade ago. Now he’s back at Northeastern University as CRRJ’s Senior Staff Attorney.
On April 29, 2025, Lydia Beal, CRRJ’s Research Associate, and Joy Zanghi, CRRJ’s Project Archivist, presented the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive (BNDA) at Digital Commonwealth’s 19th Annual Conference. Their presentation spoke to the title…
Alex Stein ’19, recently joined CRRJ as Staff Attorney and Program Director. Here he shares his journey with the project, researching cases of homicidal racial violence, and the legacy of police violence in many communities.
CRRJ’s latest documentary chronicles the life, death, and legacy
of Hosea “Shant” Carter,
a Black World War II veteran brutally lynched in 1948 Marion County, Mississippi.
First prize in CRRJ’s first Archive in Action essay contest, went to Zai’ere Watson, an 11th grader at Grimsley High School, in Guilford County, North Carolina, whose essay, “It Ends When They End,” detailed the 1946 killing of J.C. Farmer in Wilson County, NC.
Margaret Burnham’s book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, honored at 4th annual Kaleidoscope Awards for Literary Excellence, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) gave the keynote address at “Legacies of Lynching: An Inaugural Gathering,” Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley met with CRRJ staff and faculty, as her and her office takes on the task of reigniting interest in and riding co-sponsors for H.R. 40, and reparations broadly.
CRRJ hosted two guest speakers from the Chicago-based attorney’s office, People’s Law Office. Attorneys Flint Taylor and Brad Thomson spoke with CRRJ Clinic students about using civil rights lawsuits to advance racial justice, particularly in cases involving police violence.
Apply to CRRJ’s Summer 2025 Undergraduate Program, and undertake unique research opportunities and explore the intersection of historical violence and the law.