The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive and the work of CRRJ is discussed in the latest edition of the Northeastern School of Law’s magazine, Northeastern Law.
I think I am joined by the hundreds of people who worked on this project in hoping it will deepen our understanding of the function and impact of anti-Black violence in our country’s history.
Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director.
Read the full article, by Rebecca Beyer, here. Or download the magazine.
About the Archive
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive houses case files and documents for more than 1,000 cases of racial homicides in the Jim Crow South. Co-founded by Melissa Nobles, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director and professor of law at Northeastern, these uncovered stories highlight how violence affected lives, defined legal rights and shaped politics between 1930 and 1954.