Please join us for the launch of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a digital collection documenting racially motivated violence targeting African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
BY HANDS NOW KNOWN: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Digital Archive
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022
Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project will host an all-day hybrid conference to mark the launch of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, an unprecedented, publicly accessible digital collection
of 1,000 cases of racially motivated violence targeted against African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University School of Law
Daniel Domingues da Silva, Rice University
Hank Klibanoff, Emory University
Evan Lewis, Legacy Coalition
Monica Martinez, University of Texas/Austin
Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christina Simko, Williams College
Tsione Wolde-Michael, Center for Restorative History, Smithsonian Institute
Register at the following link:
Giordana Mecagni
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Head of Special Collections and University Archivist
Northeastern University Library, 92
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Please note that the Archives and Special Collections is closed due to upcoming renovations in our physical space. During this period of closure collections will be inaccessible and reference services will be limited to remote correspondence
consulting digitized material. For more information about access to our collections email [log in to unmask]
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