{"id":8078,"date":"2017-03-14T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2017-03-14T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:21:37","slug":"cold-case-justice-for-elbert-williams-march-21-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/cold-case-justice-for-elbert-williams-march-21-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Case: Justice for Elbert Williams; March 21 at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, March 21, at noon in Wade Auditorium, Jim Emison, a renowned and award winning courtroom lawyer of 43 years, will present, \u201cCold Case: Justice for Elbert Williams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 20, 1940, in the rural agricultural town of Brownsville, in Haywood County, Tennessee, cotton country, the Heart of the Tennessee Delta, Elbert Williams, charter member of the Brownsville NAACP Branch, became the first NAACP official in the nation murdered for his civil rights work. He was the first to die. His inquest was held at riverbank. The verdict was death, caused by \u201cfoul means by persons unknown 6-23-1940.\u201d He was buried the same day in an unmarked grave.<\/p>\n<p>Since his retirement at the end of 2011, Mr. Emison has been investigating the cold case murder of NAACP member Elbert Williams. \u00a0Jim has obtained an official State of Tennessee historical marker honoring Elbert Williams, and was instrumental in bringing about the memorial service on the 75th anniversary of Elbert Williams\u2019s death. A team of experts assembled by Jim is working to locate Elbert Williams\u2019s unmarked grave, and Jim hopes to persuade the United States Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Elbert Williams\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on March 21 at noon in Wade Auditorium to learn more about Elbert Williams and Mr. Emison\u2019s investigation and efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will be provided for attendees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-williams-flyer2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8082\" src=\"http:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-williams-flyer2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"elbert williams flyer2\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-williams-flyer2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-williams-flyer2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-williams-flyer2-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, March 21, at noon in Wade Auditorium, Jim Emison, a renowned and award winning courtroom lawyer of 43 years,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":8080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/elbert-header-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}