There are 2 article(s) tagged Elbert Williams:

• July 2022

  • Victims’ families languish as state effort to document civil rights-era crimes stalls

    A 2018 law created the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center, but provided no additional funding or staff.

    By Laura Faith Kebede July 08, 2022

• January 2022

  • Tennessee project would honor lynching victims

    Almost 82 years after the last documented lynching in Tennessee, a Republican and a Democrat want to commemorate all 154 victims statewide with Community Remembrance Project.

    By Ian Round January 30, 2022