Haywood county included in National Parks Service study on lynching sites

JACKSON, Tenn. — Brownsville and Haywood County have been identified as part of the National Park Service’s Memphis-area lynching locations special resource study.  It’s a congressionally mandated study to determine whether certain historic sites should be designated as a National Monument.  Eight lynching locations in the Memphis region were named, including the site connected to the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in Haywood County.

“We are seeking anything that anyone is willing and interested in sharing with us. Anyone who has an opinion on this study or the potential role of the National Parks Service in the Memphis area in the future, we encourage them to comment,” said project manager at the National Parks Service Memphis-area, Charles Lawson.

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