Lived in sumner, mississippi where the trial of emmett till was taken. While she was in memphis, she was Teaching School there. If you were africanamerican and in those days, you did not need a College Degree to teach school. She moved back to be near my dad. That is where they got married. That was in sumner, mississippi, in 1925. Easy woman. She would sing. Every day she would be Singing Church songs. Oh, she was something. You know, with four boys at that time, she had four day boi boys the house. Im sure we had done something wrong, we asked, mama, when are you going to whip us . Thats how easy she was. We just when mom would leave the house we would be afraid that something would come out of the woods, a bear or something. But when she was around the house, we wasnt afraid of anything because she was always moving, always busy. She would do anything to protect her children. She was somebody. Last year you published a beautiful book simeons story about the emmett till case and how
For emmett tills murder, and that haunts simeon. Lonnie bunch, thank you. My pleasure. We have much to talk about today, and i thought we might begin with something thats very close and very personal in your memories,s and thats just a description of your mother and your father. Well, my father, he was what we call kind of hard man. Fair. Someone thats tough but fair. Thats the kind of man he was. He loved farming. He was honest. They found out most people that he worked for in his early years that he was an honest man. If it didnt belong to him, he didnt bother it. He was a hard worker and he enjoyed to see when cotton would begin to grow in mississippi, he just became excited. And i couldnt figure out why. But thats the kind of man he was. He enjoyed the farming and told my mother, said, hey, i was born and bred in mississippi. Mississippi im going to die. Now, my mother on the other hand, she was different. She was raised in hazel hurst, mississippi, below jackson. I think when my d
Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth. His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, had not been to the South. He wa
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