The 1945 killing of Hattie DeBardelaben, first investigated by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) more than a decade ago, is one of the cases in the first set of records released last month by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act. This legislation has paved the way for the establishment of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, of which CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham is a member. The board is charged with reviewing government files of unsolved murder cases during the civil rights era and setting a schedule for the release of previously digitally unavailable documents to the public.
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Read more about DeBardelaben’s death on the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive
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.
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