Biography
Bill Light was arrested during the June 1965 voting-rights demonstrations in Jackson, Mississippi.
In his first-person account of the June 1965 Jackson demonstrations, Robertson Wood identifies Bill Light as a COFO worker among arrested demonstrators beaten by police and highway patrol officers and hospitalized. This account establishes police custody in the voting-rights campaign; hospital treatment is not converted into a prison sentence or numeric custody total. Exact arrest, first jail-admission and release days remain unknown.
Source: Canadian Friends of SNCC, Freedom Now, volume 1, number 4, July 6, 1965, page 2. No birth date is inferred from contemporary age or context.
