| By Sonam Vashi | Four days before Christmas in 1957, on a Saturday morning, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and advertising salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town to pick up his paycheck. About 42 years old and known as “Reverend” to many, the tall,
| By Isabel Hughes, Ross Merlin and Nitin Aradhya | On Sunday, December 22, 1957, residents of the bustling West Georgia city of Columbus were busy with holiday preparations. But not Clarence Pickett. “Baby, I am dying,” he told his friend Bessie Smith. “I feel like every breath
An Overview of the Clarence Pickett Case: How police brutality and medical neglect cost a man his life | By Sonam Vashi | Four days before Christmas in 1957, on a Saturday morning, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and advertising salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into
