George Greene

Released
Date of birth:08. 10. 1943
Date of death:24. 10. 2018
Age:75† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Time Imprisoned:
2 Months 7 Days
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NAACP
George Greene

Biography

George Greene was a Greenwood civil-rights organizer who worked with SNCC and the NAACP youth movement. His 1963 imprisonment included the Leflore County Penal Farm and Parchman. He continued voter-registration work after release.

Photo credit

George Greene, at right in the source photograph with Stokely Carmichael and Charlie Cobb, Atlanta, December 1963. No Easy Victories, Charlie Cobb chapter. Cropped from the original photograph.

Charles Payne’s interview-based history describes George Greene and MacArthur Cotton sharing a cold, unlit punishment cell at Parchman for ten days, with too little space to lie down. This is a description of conditions within the existing imprisonment period, not an additional custody term.

Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, PDF page 158.

Cases

Incarcerated: 1963
Released: 1963
Sentence: Six-month hard-labor sentence and $500 fine; the interview-based history reports 67 days actually served before his father obtained release. Custody included county farm and Parchman; exact endpoints unverified.
Charges: Initially held for auto-theft investigation; subsequently charged with speeding
Arrested: February 1964
Incarcerated: February 1964
Released: 1964
Sentence: Thirty hours detained with MacArthur Cotton during voter-registration work in Natchez in late February 1964. Exact days and disposition unverified.
Charges: Traffic allegation: making a U-turn (Jackson, Mississippi)
Arrested: Mar 25, 1964
Incarcerated: Mar 25, 1964
Released: Mar 26, 1964
Sentence: SNCC WATS report dated March 26, 1964 records an overnight arrest in Jackson for making a U-turn, a $22 fine, and release on March 26. This is distinct from his February Natchez detention with MacArthur Cotton and his 1963 Parchman confinement.

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