Biography
Bill Higgs was detained in Mississippi in the context of the civil-rights movement, as documented in Charles Payne’s interview-based history.
Payne’s account of a contemporary SNCC staff newsletter describes Jackson attorney Bill Higgs being arrested on a morals allegation the day after filing suit for Dewey Greene Jr.’s admission to the University of Mississippi. The newsletter is discussed in the 1963 chronology; no exact arrest month, first admission, discharge, conviction or duration is supplied here.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 171.
