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Gathering the Red Record: Linking Racial Violence Archives
July 24–25, 2025
Archivists and researchers examining historical racially motivated violence in the United States will come together to share strategies, workshop challenges and explore interoperability across collections. The convening will also celebrate the launch of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive 2.0, adding 275 cases of historical racial violence to the database.
The Burnham-Nobles Archive is a digital resource dedicated to identifying, classifying and providing factual documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-20th-century South.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2025 |
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Snell Library, Northeastern University
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| 8:00 - 9:00 AM |
Breakfast
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| 9:30 - 9:45 AM |
Welcome
Margaret Burnham
Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University School of Law Dan Cohen
Dean of Libraries, Northeastern University James Hackney
Dean of Northeastern University School of Law |
| 9:50 - 10:50 AM |
BNDA V2.0 Launch
Margaret Burnham
Director, CRRJ Melissa Nobles
Chancellor, MIT Jay Driskell
Project Historian, CRRJ Blair LM Kelley
Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| 10:55 - 11:10 AM |
BNDA V2.0 Showcase
Joy Zanghi Project Archivist, CRRJ |
| 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
Pedagogy
Moderator:
Rose Zoltek-Jick
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, CRRJ Hank Kilbanoff
Professor of Practice Creative Writing, Emory D’Lorah Hughes
Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinics, University of Kentucky Sara Merlo
Education Consultant, CRRJ Alex Stein
Staff Attorney and Program Director, CRRJ Geoff Ward
Professor of African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 12:30 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:00 PM |
Keynote Conversation:
Archives, Civil Rights and Memory Moderators:
Margaret Burnham and Melissa Nobles Speakers:
Patricia Williams University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University School of Law James Haile
Professor of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island Cheryl Harris
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, UCLA Law |
| 2:15 - 2:45 PM |
Screening: Honoring Hosea
Lydia Beal
Research Associate, CRRJ Jimmie Carter
Son of Hosea Carter |
| 2:45 - 3:45 PM |
Community Engagement: Our Data in the World
Moderator:
Raymond Wilkes, III Senior Staff Attorney, CRRJ James Williams
Racial Equity Coordinator, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation Charles Chavis
Archive for Racial & Cultural Healing Linda Mann
2024 Fulbright EU Schuman Awardee |
| 3:45 - 5:30 PM |
Introduction to WPP
Giordana Mecagni
Head, Archives and Special Collections Gina Nortonsmith
Archivist, African American History Joel Lee
Data Engineer; Northeastern University Library |
| 5:30 PM |
Reception |
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Wednesday, July 25, 2025 |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:30 - 9:45 AM |
Welcome Remarks
Managing Director, Center for Law, Equity and Race, Northeastern University School of Law
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| 9:50 - 10:50 AM |
Melissa Nobles
Monica Martinez
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas |
| 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM |
Group 1:
Project planning, data and evidence gathering Research Strategy, Pedagogy, and Methodology. Led by Jay Driskell and Isabella Garrison University of Alabama Group 2:
Tech folks talk tech with other tech teams. Led by Julia Flanders, Joel Lee and Candace Hazlett Group 3:
Project funding, integrity, and sustainability. Led by Nikki Brown and David Cunningham Group 4:
Emmett Till Projects. Led by Anwen Tormey |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
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1:00 - 3:00 PM |
All Hands on Deck: Guided Conversations on a Potential National Project
Led by:
Giordana Mecagni, Julia Flanders and Monica Martinez |
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3:00 PM |
Next Steps and Closing Remarks
Gina Nortonsmith
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Sponsored by:
Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
Northeastern University Libraries
Jul 24 - Jul 25, 2025
All day