Biography
David Lering Richards was born about 1939 in New York City and was working as a carpenter in Reseda, California and was arrested in Jackson on July 15, 1961 after traveling from New Orleans by Greyhound — 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.
The photograph caption renders his middle name Loring; the authoritative catalog form is Lering.
