TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 19, 2020

An event tomorrow will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the murder of Elbert Williams. The program will be live streamed on the Tennesseans for Historical Justice’s Facebook page at 10 a.m. CDT. Williams was a civil rights activist and an NAACP president who was murdered in Brownsville in 1940. Lawyer Jim Emison, who previously practiced in Crockett and Haywood counties, has worked to honor Williams, including writing a book on his life titled “Elbert Williams: First To Die.” Learn more about the case.