CRRJ and Southern University Celebrate 10-Year Partnership
To celebrate the decade-long partnership between the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and the Louis A. Berry Institute for Civil Rights and Justice at Southern University Law Center (SULC), members of both organizations gathered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last July. Each summer, SULC students investigate cases, following the pedagogy outlined and developed by the CRRJ Clinic, and present their findings before a panel of experts.Together, the schools investigate historical cases of anti-Black violence in the Jim Crow era, uncovering the truth and seeking justice for victims’ descendants, in recognition of the pain and trauma their families have endured for generations.
“We could not have imagined, when we first ran a CRRJ clinic at Southern University Law Center in 2014, that one of the students in that classroom would keep the torch burning for a decade,” said Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of CRRJ. “Ada Goodly Lampkin [director of the Berry Institute] and her team are to be saluted for their creative leadership, stellar teaching and enormous contributions to our common mission — unearthing these historical atrocities and finding avenues for commemoration and reparation. We are deeply honored to be SULC’s partner in this research.”
The July event was attended by (front row, from right) Anastasia Griffin MsCSL ’19; Professor Margaret Burnham; Chancellor John Pierre of Southern University and A&M College; Ada Goodly Lampkin SULC ’16, director of the Berry Institute; (back row, from left) Bayliss Fiddiman ’13, former CRRJ legal fellow; Breanna Magee SULC ’26; RayVon Addison SULC ’25; Chancellor Melissa Nobles of MIT, who co-founded the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive; Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick, CRRJ associate director; and Raymond Wilkes SULC ’18, former CRRJ legal fellow.
Photograph courtesy of Ada Goodly Lampkin
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