Jim and Betty Emison have endowed a scholarship at the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law for African Americans or Native Americans from West Tennessee who plan to return and serve their underserved communities. 

Donations to the Scholarship endowment are welcome, and may be made at give.tennessee.edu. After entering the amount of your donation, you will see a designation window & below it click the button titled Add Another scroll down & click on Elbert Williams Memorial Scholarship, then complete the donation information.

The Elbert Williams Interpretive Center (EWIC), a Tennessee nonprofit corporation, chartered in November 2025, is a work, in progress, just begun. Inspired by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi, EWIC hopes to acquire and renovate a building on North Jackson Street in Brownsville that has an intimate connection to the events of 1940 for use as a museum and visitor center. EWIC's mission is to preserve the history of Elbert Williams' 1940 effort to regain the vote for Black Americans in Haywood County, and to continue his work in voter education and motivation. 

 The National Park Service (NPS) is conducting a special resource study of eight lynching sites, including that of Elbert Williams, within a 100-mile radius of Memphis, Tennessee, for potential inclusion in the national park system, as directed by Public Law 117-238. Upon completion, the NPS will transmit the study with its recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior for his consideration transmission to Congress.