RT Book
T1 The worst thing we've ever done: one juror's reckoning with racial injustice
A1 Menaker, Carol
LA English
PP Berkeley, CA
PB She Writes Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840130466
AB "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." --
CN HV9950
SN 9781647424602
K1 Menaker, Carol
K1 Burton, Freddy : Imprisonment
K1 Jurors : United States
K1 Discrimination in justice administration : United States
K1 Jurors : United States : Biography
K1 Racism : United States
K1 Men, Black : United States : Imprisonment
K1 Discrimination in criminal justice administration : United States
K1 White privilege (Social structure) : United States
K1 Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice - États-Unis
K1 Jurés - États-Unis - Biographies
K1 Racisme - États-Unis
K1 Hommes noirs - États-Unis - Emprisonnement
K1 Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice pénale - États-Unis
K1 Racism
K1 Discrimination in justice administration
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Jurors
K1 autobiographies (literary works)
K1 Autobiographies
K1 United States