Margaret Burnham

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Margaret Burnham (born 1944[1]) is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and the founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project there.

Career[]

Burnham's legal practice included serving as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[1]

In 1970, Burnham worked with CPUSA lawyer John Abt to defend Angela Davis and later wrote the foreword to Abt's memoir.[2]

In 1977, she became the first African American woman Judge in Massachusetts, serving in as an Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court until 1982.[1]

In 2008, she was one of the lawyers in a landmark federal lawsuit against Franklin County, Mississippi for their law-enforcement agents' involvement in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping, torture and killing of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "The Honorable Margaret A. Burnham". The Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  2. ^ Abt, John; Myerson, Michael (1993). Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 78 (Amalgamated), 273 (Angela Davis). ISBN 9780252020308.
  3. ^ "Faculty Directory: Margaret A. Burnham". Northeastern University School of Law. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
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