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SUMMARY:Jim Emison at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Jim Emison—retired Tennessee trial attorney\, co-founder of Tennesseans for Historical Justice\, and a board member of the Tennessee Historical Society—for a discussion of his book\, Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP’s First Martyr. He will be joined in conversation by Cornell William Brooks—Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School. \nAbout Murder on the Hatchie\nA groundbreaking work of true crime and civil rights history\, Murder on the Hatchie uncovers the 1940 lynching of NAACP leader Elbert Williams–America’s first martyr for Black voting rights–and the federal failures that buried the case for more than eighty years. \nThe forgotten lynching that launched America’s fight for Black voting rights–and the federal cover-up that followed. \nMurder on the Hatchie 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. \nThrough 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 correspondence\, and eyewitness accounts\, Emison reconstructs how white officials conspired to silence a community\, implicating local law enforcement\, federal agents\, and even national NAACP leadership. \nEmison repositions Brownsville as a pivotal site in civil rights history and exposes how voter suppression\, racial terror\, and government complicity shaped the American democracy we inherit today. With a foreword by Margaret A. Burnham\, Murder on the Hatchie challenges liberal assumptions about justice and the embedded character of Jim Crow. For readers of Blood Done Sign My Name and By Hands Now Known\, this is both a gripping true-crime investigation and a vital work of historical restoration.
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LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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