Students of a Harvard Kennedy School Course Created by Reverend Cornell Brooks (STH ’87) Campaign to Honor the Memory of Callie House
This was originally published by the Harvard Kennedy School on October 14, 2022, and can be found here.
Excerpt from the article:
Callie House, a pioneering civil rights leader at the turn of the 20th century, founded the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association- but was later wrongfully accused of mail fraud and imprisoned, her legacy tarnished and minimized. Through Professor Cornell William Brooks’ course “Creating Justice in Real Time: Vision, Strategies and Campaigns” (MLD-375), a group of Harvard students has partnered with the Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute to posthumously right the wrongs suffered by House.
“Creating Justice in Real Time” is a course designed to allow students to directly address social injustices. Students across Harvard apply to gain on-the-ground experience through a semester-long project, in which student teams are paired with external clients to develop and execute an advocacy campaign. Four of those students—Abby Brafman EdM 2022, Didier Dumerjean MPP/MBA 2024, Victoria Ennis EdM 2022, and Elam Jones MDiv 2019/GSAS PhD 2026—spoke to the Center for Public Leadership about their involvement in the Callie House project, which culminated in a petition to posthumously pardon Callie House submitted to the U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Read the full article here.