“It was always a shadow over the family,” said Darden. Her daughter Melody Darden spoke on her behalf.
Lutricia Henderson Gray, Henderson’s last surviving child, attempted to talk about what the dismissal meant to her but was overcome with emotion. Several family members spoke in court about the case at the judge’s invitation. “We are never getting back what our family has lost,” he said. Henderson’s family members, including grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were in the courtroom as the judge read her opinion that brought something approaching justice to a case that was emblematic of the Jim Crow-era court system in the South.Īdrian Dardan, a great-grandson, said the years his ancestor spent in jail fighting the charges left Clarence Henderson an angry man, robbing his family of the kind of closeness they might have had with him. I believe that happens today as I sign this order.” Explore Photos: The Clarence Henderson case
“Although the wheels of justice can often turn slow, as the Henderson family has felt, the long arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. “This is a sad case that affected many families,” Superior Court Judge Erica Tisinger said.
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