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The Worst Thing We've Ever Done
- Author
- Carol Menaker
- Narrator
- Nan McNamara
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 31 October 2023
- Run Time
- 4 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
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Details
- Author
- Carol Menaker
- Narrator
- Nan McNamara
- Duration
- 4 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9798350830804
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Social discrimination and equal treatment
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.
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