ACS Chicago: Chicago Humanities Festival: Margaret A. Burnham on the Jim Crow

“If a law can’t protect a person from lynching, isn’t lynching the law?” asks Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, in her new book By Hands Now Known. At the Chicago Humanities Festival, Burnham and Courtney Pierre Joseph (Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Lake Forest College) explain the ways America’s legal system allowed and encouraged racial violence during the Jim Crow era, how those atrocities extend into today, and what we can do to repair a broken system. 

ACS Chicago is proud to partner with CHF on this program and excited to offer ACS friends a special offer on tickets. Add General Public tickets for the event to your cart and enter promo code BOGO22 at checkout to unlock a “buy one, get one free” special offer. 

Register here: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/margaret-burnham/