Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive Expands National Anti-Black Violence Database
The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive — a digital database of racially motivated killings of Black people in the Jim Crow South launched in 2022 by Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) — recently expanded its collection with 290 new victims and more than 5,000 new documents. The expansion was announced at a two-day conference, Gathering the Red Record, that brought together archivists, historians and legal scholars from across the country to the Boston campus.
The version 2 expansion extends the archive’s geographic scope beyond the 11 former Confederate states to include 14 additional cities and states. “For roughly two decades, we have been building a historical record of racist violence across the US,” said Professor Margaret Burnham, founder of CRRJ. “This unique gathering allowed us to deepen our collaborations and design a nationwide digital archive that will both inform today’s racial redress agenda and significantly expand our knowledge about these atrocities.”
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