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Posted by: Paul Burch on Oct 30, 2023

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee will unveil portraits of Noah Parden and Styles Hutchins in a ceremony at the Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Wednesday at 2 p.m. EDT, the Chattanoogan reports. Parden and Hutchins, two African-American attorneys from Chattanooga, obtained a stay of execution in 1906 for Ed Johnson, an African-American criminal defendant, in the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite the stay of execution, a mob forced its way into the county jail where Johnson was held and hanged him from the Walnut Street bridge. The portraits will be displayed outside the third-floor courtroom of the Solomon Federal Building. The Supreme Court Historical Society will also announce "The Supreme Court and My Hometown," a two-week summer day camp for local high school students featuring an intensive study of the process and substantive issues of cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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