The Ed Johnson Conversations

Part VI: The Memorial On The Walnut St. Bridge

A design illustration of The Ed Johnson Memorial [https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/36a2243/2147483647/strip/false/crop/636x640+0+0/resize/525x528!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwutc%2Ffiles%2F202103%2Fsr_031121_preview_after.jpg](The Ed Johnson Project) In this final conversation in our series, Mariann Martin, Eric Atkins and Steve Derthick of The Ed Johnson Project talk about the memorial in this century for remembrance, reconciliation and healing at the south end of Chattanooga’s Walnut St. Bridge.

Part V: The Trial At The U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court in the early 1900’s. [https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/38e69da/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1432x841+0+0/resize/792x465!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwutc%2Ffiles%2F202103%2Fsr_030421_preview_after_0.png](The Ed Johnson Project) In this conversation, Judge Curtis Collier and Eric Atikins discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s intervention in the Ed Johnson case after his lynching on Chattanooga’s Walnut St. Bridge.

Part IV: The Night On The Walnut St. Bridge

The Walnut St. Bridge in Chattanooga today. [https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fa59dcc/2147483647/strip/false/crop/951x965+0+0/resize/520x528!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwutc%2Ffiles%2F202102%2FSR_022521_After.jpg](The Ed Johnson Project) In this conversation, LaFrederick Thirkill and Kevin Bate discuss the violent mob that took Ed Johnson from his cell in the Hamilton County Jail on the night of March 19th, 1906 - and took his life on the Walnut St. Bridge.

Part III: The Baptism At The Hamilton County Jail

A headline in The Chattanooga Daily Times. [https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1eec020/2147483647/strip/false/crop/431x262+0+0/resize/431x262!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwutc%2Ffiles%2F202102%2FEJC_PartIII_0.png](newspapers.com) In this conversation, the Rev. Paul McDaniel, Eleanor McCallie Cooper and Donivan Brown talk about the members of the St. James Baptist Church who came to the Hamilton County Jail and baptized Ed Johnson in a bathtub filled with water on the last Sunday of his life.

Part II: The Appeal In Knoxville - And Washington, DC

Styles Hutchins, top right; Noah Parden, bottom right; Knoxville Post Office in 1906, at left. [https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/82d444b/2147483647/strip/false/crop/450x284+0+0/resize/450x284!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwutc%2Ffiles%2F202102%2FEJP_PartII.png]( The Ed Johnson Project) In this conversation, Katharine McCallie Gardner and Ardena Garth Hicks follow the case of Ed Johnson through the appeal process, a legal journey that leads to Knoxville - and then Washington, DC.