A new book examines the 1940 murder of NAACP organizer Elbert Williams and efforts to suppress Black voting in Tennessee. On June 12, 1939, Elbert Williams and four other people in Brownsville, Tenn., formed a local NAACP chapter, the fifth to be established in the state. He was a charter member with his wife, Annie..
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A new book examines the 1940 murder of NAACP organizer Elbert Williams and efforts to suppress Black voting in Tennessee. On June 12, 1939, Elbert Williams and four other people in Brownsville, Tenn., formed a local NAACP chapter, the fifth to be established in the state. He was a charter member with his wife, Annie..
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