Margaret Burnham

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. Her legal practice included serving as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.[1] 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] She was one of the lawyers in a landmark federal lawsuit in 2008 against Franklin County, Mississippi for their law-enforcement agents' involvement in the 1964 Klu Klux Klan kidnapping, torture and killing of two 19-year-olds, Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Honorable Margaret A. Burnham". The Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  2. ↑ "Faculty Directory: Margaret A. Burnham". Northeastern University School of Law. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
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