Biography
Charles McLaurin was detained in Mississippi in the context of the civil-rights movement, as documented in Charles Payne’s interview-based history.
The history names McLaurin and Landy McNair as arrested and released without charge after arriving in Ruleville in August 1962. It separately names McLaurin among five SNCC workers jailed and beaten in Columbus in early June 1964, then released the following day. These are separate episodes. No jail admission, exact discharge or numerical overnight duration is reconstructed.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 115; original PDF page 207.
Payne individually names McLaurin in the March 1963 Greenwood protest-arrest group, a separate episode from his August 1962 Ruleville and June 1964 Columbus arrests. The printed group headcount says eight while listing nine names. The account does not establish his exact physical jail-admission date, discharge or completed actual duration.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 124; Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 126.
