Jim Emison — Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP's First Martyr - with Aderson Francois — at the Wharf

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The forgotten lynching that launched America's fight for Black voting rights and the federal cover up that followed. Murder on the Hatchie https://politics prose.com/book/9798341901018 uncovers one of the earliest and most consequential crimes in America's long struggle for Black voting rights: the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in Brownsville, Tennessee. A founding member of the local NAACP, Williams was murdered for attempting to register Black voters, decades before the more famous murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers. Through rigorous research and gripping narrative, retired trial attorney Jim Emison reconstructs the events surrounding Williams's lynching and the federal government's failure to prosecute his killers. Drawing on FBI files, Department of Justice…

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