From June 10 to June 21, Dr. Michelle Deardorff—the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government and head of the UTC Department of Political Science and Public Service—and UTC hosted “The Supreme Court and My Hometown,” a collaboration of the Supreme Court Historical Society, the United States District Court’s Eastern District of Tennessee and the UTC Department of Political Science and Public Service.
Looking back on 2021
The biggest stories of UTC in 2021.
We Care Now: Student podcast about the lynching of local man leaves no stone unturned
UTC students chose to tell Ed Johnson’s story in their serial podcast titled, “We Care Now: A Podcast for Ed Johnson.”
I Am Innocent: Ed Johnson Remembered
On Sept. 24, 2018, about a dozen people stood quietly on the bridge and listened as Eric Atkins recalled the lynching that took Johnson’s life more than 100 years earlier.
Collaboration with the University of the South generates series on the lynching of Ed Johnson in Chattanooga
Taking place on both campuses, the events in the new series include a documentary screening and lectures featuring Illinois State University’s Amy Wood, award-winning historian and professor of post-Civil War American cultural history and the history of the U.S. South.