Biography
Floyd Nichols was jailed during the 1967 Texas Southern University prosecution known as the TSU Five.
The NAACP legal-case finding aid identifies Floyd Nichols among the five Texas Southern University defendants charged with murder and assault with intent to murder after the May 1967 police-student confrontation in Houston. Paul Boutelle’s October 23, 1967 report of his interview with Floyd Nichols documents their pretrial jail and bail circumstances. The interview reports that Nichols, Franklin and John Parker remained jailed for a range of thirty-five to thirty-eight days before NAACP-supported bail. It does not assign an exact individual duration or discharge day. No exact custody endpoints or completed aggregate term is established here.
NAACP legal-case finding aid, TSU files; The Militant, October 23, 1967, page 2; Spartacist, March–April 1968, page 13.
