Police reward poster for information regarding Banks’ death, 1954. Courtesy of the archive. Location: Crittenden County, Arkansas Age: 59 Year: 1954 Isadore Banks, 59, was a farm owner and veteran who was killed by unknown…
Timothy Hood, 23, a veteran, was killed in 1946 by Police Chief G. B. Fant in Bessemer, Jefferson County Alabama.
On November 9, 2020, CRRJ hosted a panel at the Digital Library Federation annual conference called “Recording Restorative Justice and Accountability: The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.”
Jesse Thornton, 26, an overseer on a chicken farm, was killed in 1940 by a group of men led by police officers Doris Rhodes and Noland Ellis in Crenshaw County, Alabama.
Bennie Thompson, 38, was killed in 1933 by Burley Leppard and three others in Ninety Six, Greenwood County, South Carolina.
In 2016 two law students at CRRJ, Tara Dunn and Ariel Kong, unearthed Henry Gilbert’s story. Their work established that Gilbert was murdered in police custody. Their investigation led to an official apology from public officials in Harris County, Georgia.
The Red Record is a podcast series covering the case files of CRRJ, named after Ida B Wells’ effort to document racially motivated homicides at the turn of the 20th century.
CRRJ has compiled this report of findings from its investigations of historical killings perpetrated by law enforcement in Birmingham and Jefferson County. The 127 cases in Jefferson County reveal patterns about the nature of police violence during this period.
The annual reports summarize the activities of CRRJ, its projects and partners, milestones, and case docket in each year.
Bringing together researchers, students, and invited guests in the fields of civil rights and historical injustices, the workshop series is designed to discuss new research projects in an informal setting. A short presentation…
Host Dan Cohen is joined by Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University and Founder and Director of CRRJ, to discuss the cold-case racially motivated homicides in the United States between 1930 and 1970. (Original Broadcast: 2/5/2019)
In 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, a black man named Rayfield Davis was beaten to death by a white man who was not prosecuted. The crime was forgotten until 2012, when law student Chelsea Schmitz was assigned to investigate. Watch this remarkable story of justice served at long last.
This six-credit course, open to Northeastern law students and graduate students, includes: One seminar a week, covering the legal, historical, and theoretical material that supports and orients the work of the student’s research endeavors. The…
This three credit course, open to law and graduate students and selected upper level undergraduates, examines developments in the fields of historical injustice and reparation with a focus on the Afro-diasporic experience. It…
This three credit seminar in Race, Justice, and Reform focuses on (1) how the criminal justice system impacts our communities; (2) how laws, policies, and practices disparately impact communities of color and perpetuate…
On Saturday, November 17, 2018, in Culpeper, Virginia, the lives of three men—Charles “Allie” Thompson (d. 1918), William Grayson (d. 1850), and William Thompson (d. 1877)—were remembered.
On October 27, 2018, CRRJ Visiting Scholar Diane Harriford and Kyleen Burke (NUSL ’18) participated in a commemoration honoring Elwood Higginbottom in Oxford, Mississippi.