SEATTLE – In an exclusive interview, FOX 13 Seattle spoke with Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a surviving witness to the kidnapping of Emmett Till, to hear his account of the events 69 years after that pivotal point in American civil rights history.
Archival video from 1955 in Sumner, Mississippi shows the disease of division casting a stage for a pandemic of hate and injustice.
The grainy black and white film is a clear documentation of what life was like for people of color seeking justice in the south.
“We believe in tending to our own business down here,” Sydney Carlton, Mississippi Defense Attorney said. “And a result of the NAACP and their activities in trying to make something big out of just an ordinary criminal affair in Mississippi,” Carlton said in the archival footage.…