# 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.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

- 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
- About: [incident 1955-us-mississippi-till-trial-press-segregation](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1955-us-mississippi-till-trial-press-segregation)
- Source: American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (film transcript). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/till/
- 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.

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