Margaret
Burnham
Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
Expertise
Margaret Burnham in the Press
KQED
As Trump Slams DEI, Racial Justice Leaders Stay Focused on Reparations
“There are many communities, cities and localities that are now considering the ways in which governmental entities contributed to these harms,” Margaret Burnham, CRRJ’s director and a law professor at Northeastern, said.
“All We Are is Memory”
Burnham, a lawyer and the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, opens her book with a 1944 death in Donalsonville, Georgia, that resonated with me.
The New Yorker Review
A Regional Reign of Terror
The “mundane, largely hidden violence” that loomed over Black life is the subject of Margaret A. Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, a work by turns shocking, moving, and thought-provoking. It merits the attention of anyone interested in the historical roots of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and, […]
Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for doughnuts. They were shot.
“This finding reverses a decision that is as wrong today as it was 82 years ago,” Margaret Burnham, founder of Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which tracks such cases, wrote in an email. “It is never too late.”
Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941
Official status changes like that in Private King’s create “a new version of history,” said Margaret Burnham, the founder of the Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which first brought his story to light.
Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides
More than a decade ago, Burnham, a law professor, founded the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, and with the help of the political scientist Melissa Nobles created a database of what Burnham calls a “forgotten history of racially motivated homicides” in the American South during the Jim Crow era.
Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides
Margaret A. Burnham writes in “By Hands Now Known.” More than a decade ago, Burnham, a law professor, founded the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University.
The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America
“There’s a huge movement all across the country to look at historical wrongs, including forced sterilization, and to consider what needs to be done now in order to redress them,” explains Margaret Burnham, founder and co-director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law. “I think this is really […]
Mother Jones
A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?
Simon was investigating Reese’s death as part of Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. Its researchers examine racialized killings between 1930 and 1970, during the Jim Crow era and its immediate aftermath. They dig up new information about unsolved murders, push officials to set the record straight, and ask surviving family […]
The Success | Un(re)solved Podcast | FRONTLINE
Some of the interviews with family members of the next of kin were produced in collaboration with StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University […]
