Buried Truths

<p>Rev. Clarence Pickett’s final days: his arrest, his beating and how he saw a doctor one day and was dead the next.</p> <p>For more, visit buriedtruths.org</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>

<p>After enthralling congregations for several years, Rev. Pickett landed in the Georgia state mental institution, then a county jail where the jailer beat him to the edge of death.</p> <p>For more, visit...

<p>Rev. Clarence Horatious Pickett was a celebrated young pastor who developed behavioral problems that drew attention and arrests. But none should have led to what followed.</p> <p>For more, visit...

<p>Four days before Christmas in 1957, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and newspaper ad salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town to pick up his paycheck. Forty-eight years old and known as “Reverend” to...

<p>Caroline Herring is a singer, songwriter and scholar of the South. She discusses the evolution of her music and of the song she wrote for Buried Truths.</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>

<p>Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years after their father died.</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

<p>Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman who killed James Brazier.</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

<p>An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black people but were too afraid to say so. What about today? And tomorrow?</p><p>See...

<p>Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and an angry President Kennedy. </p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for...

<p>Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court, setting up a tense battle between leading lawyers for and against civil...

<p>James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after learning of his brutal racism. She accepts the truth but struggles with it...

<p>An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.</p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>

<p>The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he? And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her. </p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>

<p>The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him. </p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>

<p>On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police. </p><p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>