He also tried to escape Parchman in 1988 with another ... A spokesperson for the Mississippi Department of Corrections declined to comment Wednesday about details of how Whetstone escaped, how ...

One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

They entered a white only waiting room in Jackson and were arrested. They were sent to Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Prison and continued their protest from inside.