Throughout this year, we have shared the story of Ed Johnson, an African-American man who was lynched on Chattanooga’s Walnut Street Bridge in 1906. On Sunday, September 19th, the Ed Johnson Memorial will be dedicated near that bridge. Journalist Peter Canellos – a current editor at Politico and a former editorial page editor of The Boston Globe – recently wrote a book about a
Join Peter and the Ed Johnson Project on September 17. A keynote lecture about the history of lynchings and anti-black violence, and a history roundtable discussion about the significance of the Ed Johnson Memorial will begin at 5:30 pm. More information is available here.
In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s. Henning Jacobson, a 50-year-old minister, put his faith in his own liberty. Back in his native Sweden, he had suffered a bad reaction to a vaccine as an infant, struggling for years with an angry rash. Now he was
This Facebook Live conversation details the historic intervention with the Hon. Curtis L. Collier, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee and Peter S. Canellos, award-winning writer. Moderated by Donivan Brown, Chair of the Ed Johnson Project. See the full event here
The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his