Biography
Charles A. Haynie was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 30, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.
A published Freedom Rider roster describes Haynie as the only rider who served a full six-month sentence in Mississippi jails; his exact institutional movements and release date remain unresolved.
