News photos: Locals commemorate Parchman Ordeal at banquet
Published 12:45 am Monday, January 18, 2016
The Rev. Al Sampson holds up an old copy of Jet magazine which featured a photograph of George Metcalfe in the hospital after Metcalfe’s car was bombed 50 years ago. Sampson is a civil rights leader who came to Natchez after Metcalfe’s vehicle was bombed. Sampson was arrested in 1965 and detained at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. (Ben Hillyer/The Natchez Democrat)
Sampson was the main speaker at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. banquet Sunday evening. (Ben Hillyer/The Natchez Democrat)
Youth from the Adam County 4-H and the Word of Faith Ambassadors Worship Center act out scenes from their skit called “The Parchman Ordeal” during the banquet. (Ben Hillyer/The Natchez Democrat)
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