Claim
Claim 861
Photographer Ernest Withers recalled Sheriff Strider describing the seating as "22 seats over here for you white boys" and "four seats over here for you colored boys," saying "we don't mix 'em down here," according to PBS's American Experience.
- Statement
- Photographer Ernest Withers recalled Sheriff Strider describing the seating as "22 seats over here for you white boys" and "four seats over here for you colored boys," saying "we don't mix 'em down here," according to PBS's American Experience.
- Field
- stated_justification
- Value
- Strider's description of the segregated seating
- Publisher
- American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (film transcript)
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-26
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
Quotation from the source
We got 22 seats over here for you white boys. And we've got four seats over here for you colored boys. We don't mix 'em down here.