Digging for the Truth: Jim Emison, BA'65, devotes retirement to civil rights-era cold case
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 14 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news:
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Digging for the Truth: Jim Emison, BA'65, devotes retirement to civil rights-era cold case
In 1939, Elbert Williams helped found the Brownsville, Tennessee, chapter of the NAACP, which sought to regain voting rights for Haywood County African Americans. The next year, police and one civilian forcibly removed Williams from his home. Williams' body was pulled out . . .
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Digging for the Truth: Jim Emison, BA'65, devotes retirement to civil rights-era cold case
In 1939, Elbert Williams helped found the Brownsville, Tennessee, chapter of the NAACP, which sought to regain voting rights for Haywood County African Americans. The next year, police and one civilian forcibly removed Williams from his home. Williams' body was pulled out . . .