TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 24, 2020

The Duncan School of Law at Lincoln Memorial University and Tennesseans for Historical Justice (THJ) presented a forum on past crimes involving racism last week. Cynthia Deitle, THJ board member, lawyer, retired career FBI special agent, and current head of the Mathew Shepard Foundation, presented her experience working cold civil rights cases. John Ashworth, also a THJ board member, presented about the ongoing effect of racial violence on the families of victims. And Jim Emison, founder of THJ, presented on the unsolved murder of NAACP officer Elbert Williams, who was killed in Brownsville. WATE.com and WBIR.com both covered the event and have more on the program.