Biography
Emily Gordon was arrested during the June 1965 voting-rights demonstrations in Jackson, Mississippi.
In his first-person account of the June 1965 Jackson demonstrations, Robertson Wood identifies Emily Gordon as an MFDP worker among arrested demonstrators beaten by police and highway patrol officers and hospitalized. This account establishes police custody in the voting-rights campaign; hospital treatment is not converted into a prison sentence or numeric custody total. Exact arrest, first jail-admission and release days remain unknown.
Source: Canadian Friends of SNCC, Freedom Now, volume 1, number 4, July 6, 1965, page 2. No birth date is inferred from contemporary age or context.
