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Buried Truths

WABE

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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An interview with Margaret Burnham about her new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. The book is so revealing that we wanted to share a conversation she had with the public radio program, Fresh Air (produced by WHYY in Philadelphia and distributed by NPR).

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1:03.1	This is Barry Truse. I'm Hank Clibbinoff. Today I want to tell you about a friend of mine, Margaret
1:10.3	Burnham, who teaches at the North Eastern University School of Law in Boston. Before that,
1:16.8	she was the Civil Rights Lawyer. She did work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
1:22.4	and she was the first black woman named to a judge ship in the state of Massachusetts.
1:28.2	At Northeastern, Margaret co-founded the Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project,
1:34.4	which does much of the same work with law students investigating civil rights cold cases
1:39.4	that my undergraduate students do at Emory University. But Margaret and her team have added an
1:46.3	even greater ambition to document and publish information about every unpunished civil rights cold
1:52.8	case in the South from 1930 to 1955. And that's about a thousand cases, including many that civil
2:02.0	rights organizations, scholars, and journalists know nothing about. Her students, because their law
2:08.4	students, are focusing on the legal shortcomings that let so many killers go free for so many decades.
2:16.3	Margaret in September 2022 also published a book based on that research. The book is called
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