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We Care Now: A Podcast For Ed Johnson

Will Davis

In 1906, a young African American man named Ed Johnson was murdered by a lynch mob on the Walnut Street Bridge in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. We Care Now is the story of what happened to Ed Johnson and what a group of citizens are doing today to memorialize him. We Care Now was created by the podcasting students of Will Davis at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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In 1906, a young African American man named Ed Johnson was murdered by a lynch mob on the Walnut Street Bridge in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. We Care Now is the story of what happened to Ed Johnson and what a group of citizens are doing today to memorialize him. We Care Now was created by the podcasting students of Will Davis at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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44min 33sec
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This story begins with Ed Johnson being wrongfully accused of Nevada Taylor’s…
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This story continues with Ed Johnson’s conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court’s…
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A memorial is being built on Chattanooga’s popular Walnut Street Bridge to…
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Chattanooga artists and leaders Nicole Coleman, Donivan Brown, and LaFrederick…
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The student podcasters of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga reflect on…
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