TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 8, 2016

Jim Emison will speak at Vanderbilt University Law School this Monday at noon. The event, scheduled to take place in the Renaissance Room, is open to the public. Emison, a former TBA president, has worked tirelessly for justice and recognition for Elbert Williams, a member of the NAACP who organized meetings of African Americans in West Tennessee’s Haywood County. In 1940, Williams was found in a river and buried without an autopsy in an unmarked grave. Emison is the author of Elbert Williams: First to Die, a nod to the fact that Williams was likely the first NAACP leader in the country to be killed.