Henry Marion Steele

AKA: Henry Steele
Released
Era:1960s
State:Florida
Support
Congress of Racial Equality Civil rights movement
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Biography

Henry Marion Steele participated in the 1960 Tallahassee campaign against segregated lunch counters and the ensuing jail-in.

Case

Charges: Inciting to riot — Tallahassee lunch-counter sit-in
Sentenced: Mar 17, 1960
Incarcerated: March 1960
Sentence: Sixty days or a $300 fine at the March 17, 1960 trial. Chose jail; correspondence confirms continued confinement at Leon County Jail on April 28. Exact release remains unverified.

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