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Restoring Justice

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

In her new book, The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (Beacon Press, 2007) civil rights lawyer and law professor Sherrilyn Ifill, asks if the U.S. should look to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation process to address the history of lynching.

The Courthouse Lawn is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Event
Sherrilyn Ifill will read from The Courthouse Lawn at
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
Saturday, Feb 24th at 4 p.m.


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