{"product_id":"the-worst-thing-weve-ever-done-one-jurors-reckoning-with-racial-injustice-paperback","title":"The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning with Racial Injustice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Menaker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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: \u003ci\u003eWhat ever happened to Freddy Burton--and is it possible that my youth and white privilege were what led me to convict him of murder?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worst Thing We've Ever Done\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Worst Thing We've Ever Done\u003c\/i\u003e is her first full-length work. She lives in Grass Valley, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53099038114016,"sku":"9781647424602","price":20.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/AhZBM8iI4a9781647424602.webp?v=1781701177","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-worst-thing-weve-ever-done-one-jurors-reckoning-with-racial-injustice-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}