TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Oct 27, 2015

The Seattle Times highlights attorney Jim Emison’s work to tell the lost story of Elbert Williams, a civil rights activist and NAACP president who was murdered in Haywood County in 1940. “At first, I thought this must be a real aberration. The horror was in its commonness, not its uniqueness," Emison said. Emison, who formerly practced in Crockett and Haywood counties, is authoring a book about Williams' life.