Biography
A. Lenora Taitt was an Atlanta University graduate and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist. She spent fifteen days in jail after an Atlanta sit-in, then joined the Freedom Ride into Albany, Georgia, where police arrested her on December 10, 1961. Taitt spent two weeks in the Albany city and county jails.
Zinn’s contemporary account individually places this activist in the December 1961 Albany custody proceedings. He distinguishes the initial railway-terminal arrests, county-court proceedings and later group releases. Because the release accounts do not resolve every person’s exact custody trajectory, no exact individual discharge date or calculated total is inferred. Howard Zinn, Albany, Southern Regional Council SRC22, January 8, 1962, original PDF page 17. Source: https://www.crmvet.org/info/6201_zinn_albany.pdf#page=17
Calculated release date for the stay beginning December 10, 1961: December 24, 1961, adding the recorded 14-day equivalent of the reported completed weeks in custody with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning December 10, 1961: December 24, 1961, adding the recorded 14-day equivalent of the reported completed weeks in custody with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
