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Jim Emison

Jim Emison, a renowned, award-winning, courtroom lawyer of forty-three years, retired at the end of 2011, and has been investigating the June 20, 1940, civil rights cold case murder of NAACP member Elbert Williams, in Brownsville, Tennessee. Jim has obtained an official State of Tennessee historical marker honoring Elbert Williams, and was instrumental in bringing about the memorial service on the 75th anniversary of Elbert Williams’s death. A team of experts assembled by Jim is working to locate Elbert Williams’s unmarked grave, and Jim hopes to persuade the United States Department of Justi