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Henry Schwarzschild

Released
Date of birth:1926
Date of death:01. 06. 1996
Age:70† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Time Imprisoned:
7 Days
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Civil Rights
Henry Schwarzschild

Biography

Henry Schwarzschild was a religious official associated with a Highland Park, Illinois congregation, about thirty-five years old and traveled by bus from Montgomery and was arrested at the Jackson Trailways terminal on June 21, 1961; he later became a prominent civil-liberties figure with the ACLU — 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.

His Sovereignty Commission mugshot (Jackson police placard 21041, dated 6-21-61) was located by direct verification of the catalog after an earlier record-id inference proved to point at another rider.

Calculated release date for the stay beginning June 21, 1961: June 28, 1961, adding the recorded 7-day equivalent of the reported completed weeks in custody with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.

Calculated release date

Calculated release date for the stay beginning June 21, 1961: June 28, 1961, adding the recorded 7-day equivalent of the reported completed weeks in custody with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival at the Jackson Trailways terminal, June 21, 1961.
Arrested: Jun 21, 1961
Incarcerated: Jun 21, 1961
Released: Jun 28, 1961
Sentence: A four-month jail sentence or $200 fine was imposed. Stephen J. Whitfield reports that Schwarzschild spent one week in jail and paid the fine. Record the reported week of actual confinement; the exact release date remains unresolved. Calculated release date for the stay beginning June 21, 1961: June 28, 1961, adding the recorded 7-day equivalent of the reported completed weeks in custody with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Convicted: Yes