Francis L. Geddes

Released
Full name:Francis Geddes
Date of birth:1923
Age:103
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Civil Rights
Francis L. Geddes

Biography

Francis L. Geddes was a San Francisco minister and was arrested with eight other airport Freedom Riders at the Jackson Municipal Airport on July 21, 1961 — 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.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride test of the Jackson Municipal Airport facilities, July 21, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 21, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-07-21. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer to Parchman, 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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