The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning with Racial Injustice - Couverture souple

Menaker, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1647424607 ISBN 13 : 9781647424602

Editeur : She Writes Press, 2023

Synopsis

In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole.

For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the intensely emotional experience of the sequestration and trial behind her, rarely speaking of it to others and avoiding jury service when at all possible. But the arrival of a jury summons at her home in Northern California in 2017 set her on a path to unravel the painful experience of sequestration and finally ask the question: What ever happened to Freddy Burton—and is it possible that my youth and white privilege were what led me to convict him of murder?

The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done is Menaker’s inspirational account of journeying back in time to uncover the personal bias that may have led her to judge someone whose shoes she never could have walked in.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Menaker is a writer living in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California, where she retired after a forty-plus-year career writing and managing communications for universities and nonprofits. She was raised in a Jewish family in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in theatre arts/acting from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and she enjoys travel, yoga, walking, and bicycling. The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done is her first full-length work. She lives in Grass Valley, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: She Writes Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1647424607
• ISBN 13: 9781647424602
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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