Dion Tyrone Diamond

Released
Date of birth:1941
Age:85
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Dion Tyrone Diamond

Biography

Dion Tyrone Diamond was a Freedom Rider and SNCC field secretary with two separately documented arrests in the Civil Rights Digital Library, each with its own Sovereignty Commission identification photograph. He was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 24, 1961 — the date on his Jackson police placard — as a Freedom Rider, and again in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on February 1, 1962, during his SNCC organizing there. The catalog treats these as separate custody episodes, and so does this record; neither episode's disposition or release date is established in the CRDL material, so those fields are unresolved.

Cases

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival in Jackson, Mississippi, May 24, 1961 (the date on the Jackson police placard).
Arrested: May 24, 1961
Sentence: Arrested in Jackson as a Freedom Rider; the police placard reads May 24, 1961. The catalog establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer, or the release date — unresolved pending court or jail records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record
Charges: Arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 1, 1962, during SNCC organizing; the charge as recorded is not specified in the catalog.
Arrested: Feb 1, 1962
Sentence: A separate custody episode: arrested February 1, 1962 in Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's placard 55652). Disposition and release unresolved in the CRDL record.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record

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