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Date(s) - February 5, 2024
7:00 pm
Margaret Burnham, founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, will discuss her recent book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
The book explores a series of legal cases involving African Americans from 1920 to 1960 and shows the connections between the laws of slavery and the legal system under Jim Crow in the late 19th and 20th Century South. Many of the cases involved rendition, the legal process by which Southern states sought to return accused African Americans to Southern “justice.” This prompted battles over questions of jurisdiction, many right here in Detroit.
This event is co-sponsored by Detroit Mercy School of Law, the Association of Black Law Alumni, the African American Studies program, the Black Abolitionist Archive, the History department, the Political Science department, the Pre-Law program and Student Affairs.
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