Biography
Frank Smith is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Mississippi.
Payne identifies Smith as the Holly Springs movement worker assigned to Greenwood food distribution and explicitly describes his jailing near the end of March 1963. The next page also individually names him in the protest-arrest group. The SNCC Digital Gateway identifies this organizer as born September 17, 1942 in Newnan, Georgia, a Morehouse student who joined Holly Springs organizing in 1962. This source identity is distinct from the Attica organizer Frank Big Black Smith and the Florida defendant Frank Lee Smith. No actual jail admission, discharge or completed duration is inferred.
Sources: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 123; Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 124; SNCC Digital Gateway, Frank Smith.
