David Kerr Morton

Released
Date of birth:c. 1940
Age:86
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
David Kerr Morton

Biography

David Kerr Morton was a twenty-one-year-old folk singer and writer arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11, 1961 after a Nashville-to-Jackson Freedom Ride. His birth year, about 1940, is derived from his reported age at arrest. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds his named arrest photograph but does not establish his disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival in Jackson, June 11, 1961.
Arrested: Jun 11, 1961
Sentence: Arrested June 11, 1961 in Jackson. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest but not the disposition, any transfer, or the release date — unresolved pending court, jail, or penitentiary records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record

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