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Civil rights and Restorative Justice is a
project of Northeastern University engaging teachers and
students across the university and directed by faculty from
the School of Law and the College of Criminal Justice.
The project addresses harms resulting
from the massive break-down in law enforcement during the
civil rights movement, from the 1950s to the early 1970s. This
was a time of great political protest and turmoil as
African-Americans and their allies militantly rejected Jim
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Their protests were greeted with systemic violence and
repression. Thousands were arrested and imprisoned, hundreds
were murdered and beaten, and untold numbers lost their jobs,
their churches, and their homes. These crimes against the
civil rights movement were committed by institutions,
organized
groups, individuals acting alone, and by government actors, often
colluding with private persons. Rarely were the perpetrators of these
violations prosecuted in court or otherwise made to answer for their
offenses.
The aim of the Civil Rights and
Restorative Justice project is to investigate the role of state, local and
federal law enforcement agencies and courts in protecting activists and
their work. CRRJ examines the geo-politics that led to the large-scale
breakdown of law enforcement, the wide-spread repression against the
movement's participants, and the reforms that have been initiated to
rectify these abuses.
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