I appeared on The Takeaway this morning with New York Times reporter Shaila Dewan and Catherine Walker, whose father Clifton was murdered by Klansmen on February 28, 1964. Today's segment was a follow up to Dewan's article in yesterday's Times.
Catherine Walker stands at her father's grave in Wilkinson County, MS.
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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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I am Brenden reuben Walters. I am the grandson of Clifton Walker sr. My mother is Brenda (walker) Walters, one of the five children of Clifton and Ruby Walker. I was shocked when I first heard the story of how my grandfather Clifton Walker sr was killled. I was also shocked to learn that he had served in the ARM forces. I am currently serving in the US. Army. I know one day the case of my grandfather will be solved. So he could rest in peace and my family could move on knowing the truth of the ones responseable.