Biography
Gwendolyn Green was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — 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.
The catalog flags her name as questionable — it prints Gwendolyn Green followed by [sic] — so the spelling recorded here is the catalog's own and may not be the form she used. No alternate spelling has been established, and the name is kept as the record gives it rather than quietly corrected.
