Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ and author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.

MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles, co-author of the CCRJ Archives, speaks at the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) archive launch and student recognition event held at Columbus Place.

Dr. Deborah A. Jackson, managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR)

Professor Margaret Burnham

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun

Tara Dunn, ’17, speaks at the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) archive launch and student recognition event about her work on Henry Gilbert’s case and the impact it had on her. A member of Gilbert’s family, back center, was in attendance at the event held in Columbus Place.

Noah Lapidus ’20

Kaylie Simon ’11 spoke about the impact of the CRRJ Clinic, Burnham’s role as a mentor and the legacy of those murdered in the Jim Crow era.

Professor Rashida Richardson ’11

Dr. Deborah Jackson

Dan Cohen, Dean of Libraries, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, and Professor of History, Northeastern University

Dean James Hackney

Professor Margaret Burnham

Gina Nortonsmith, CRRJ’s project archivist moderated a panel titled “Archival Collections and Restorative History”

Tsione Wolde-Michael, Founding Director, Center for Restorative History, Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Associate Professor of History, Rice University

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; Co-founder, Refusing to Forget

Left to right: Gina Nortonsmith, Tsione Wolde-Michael, Daniel Domingues da Silva and Monica Muñoz Martine.

Rose Zoltek-Jick, Associate Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University School of Law, moderated a panel titled, "Historical Racial Violence in the Classroom: What are We Teaching?”

Ada Goodly Lampkin, Director, Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights and Justice, Southern University Law Center

Hank Klibanoff, Professor of Practice, English and Creative Writing, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Panel: Historical Racial Violence in the Classroom: What are We Teaching?

Professor Emily Spieler (left) and Professor Margaret Burnham

Bayliss Fiddiman ’13, director of educational equity at the National Women’s Law Center, moderated a panel titled ”Family History, U.S. History”

Left to right: James Williams, Esq., Pvt. Booker Spicely Historical Marker Working Group; Jonique Williams, Granddaughter of Edwin C. Williams; Sheila Moss Brown, Granddaughter of Henry “Peg” Gilbert; Evan Lewis, Great-grandson of Lent Shaw; Director, Legacy Coalition

James Williams, Esq., Pvt. Booker Spicely Historical Marker Working Group

Jonique Williams, Granddaughter of Edwin C. Williams

Evan Lewis, Great-grandson of Lent Shaw; Director, Legacy Coalition

Sheila Moss Brown, Granddaughter of Henry “Peg” Gilbert

Roderick Ireland, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (left), and Dr. Richard Bryant, director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University

James Williams (left) and Jonique Williams

Left to right: Evan Lewis, Sheila Moss Brown, Jonique Williams and James Williams

Professor Melvin Kelley moderated a panel titled ”Historical Violence, Contemporary Inequality and Future Advocacy.”

Inga Laurent, Professor, Gonzaga University School of Law

Dania Francis, Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, UMass Boston

Marissa Jackson Sow, Assistant Professor, University of Richmond School of Law

Left to right: Christina Simko, Associate Professor of Sociology, Williams College; Inga Laurent, Professor, Gonzaga University School of Law; Dania Francis, Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts, UMass Boston; Marissa Jackson Sow, Assistant Professor, University of Richmond School of Law

Professor Patricia Williams (left) hosted a conversation between Professor Margaret Burnham (right) and Melissa Nobles (center) on Lessons Learned and Hopes for the Archive.

Professor Margaret BurnhamPr

Professor Margaret Burnham signs copies of her new book, <i>By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.</i>

Professors Karl Klare (left), Emily Spieler (center) and Margaret Burnham.

Left to right: Gina Nortonsmith, Melissa Nobles, Margaret Burnham, Rose Zoltek-Jick and Deborah Jackson

Left to right: Erika Howard (right), director of impact strategy and external relations for FRONTLINE, Professor Margaret Burnham; Ada Goodly Lampkin, Director, Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights and Justice, Southern University Law Center

Professor Margaret Burnham visits the “Un(re)solved” installation. The augmented reality art installation is designed as a “memory forest” that weaves together history and present day stories of those who have been lost, as told by their descendants.