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Bryant Tatum

Case from Chattanooga, TN dated Jul 29, 1978

Victim Details

Bryant Tatum

Female

Black / African American

Chattanooga

TN

1978-07-29

20

Bryant

Tatum

06/24/2026

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On a summer evening in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the life of William Bryant Tatum, a 20-year-old African American man, was tragically cut short. The date was July 29, 1978, and Tatum, a junior varsity basketball player at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was in a restaurant parking lot with his 18-year-old white girlfriend, Nancy Hilton. Described as a quiet individual who loved basketball, his life was extinguished in an act of hate-fueled violence that night.

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