Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Elbert Williams
20 June 1940Brownsville and the Hatchie River, TN
Elbert Williams helped start a NAACP branch in a county where no Black citizen had voted in half a century. He was taken from his home at night and pulled from the Hatchie River three days later.
- People killed
- 1
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.