Join Historic New England and the North End Historical Society on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 6 p.m. for The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: Justice on Trial. The lecture will be presented by Barbara Berenson, senior attorney with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Berenson outlines the famous case, provides a context within the history of Italian immigration, and reviews the significance of the case and its impact on the twentieth century.
Barbara Berenson works on a variety of legal and policy issues for the Justices and, additionally, leads many of the court’s civic education efforts. She created the court’s exhibits Sacco & Vanzetti: Justice on Trial and John Adams: Architect of American Government. A lifelong student of history, she is the primary author of Walking Tours of Civil War Boston: Hub of Abolitionism (The Freedom Trail Foundation 2011) and an editor of Skirting the Barriers: The Unfinished History of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education 2012 (forthcoming). She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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The event will be held at the Otis House Museum, 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, and is free to Historic New England and North End Historical Society members. Registration is required. Please call 617-994-5920 for more information or visit www.historicnewengland.org .
