Biography
J. W. Hayes was a Birmingham movement minister and one of the eight petitioners in Walker v.
The Rev. City of Birmingham, convicted of criminal contempt for going forward with the Good Friday and Easter 1963 marches against segregation in defiance of a state-court injunction. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions 5-4 in 1967, and the eight served five-day jail terms that fall — the case that produced Martin Luther King Jr.'s final jailing.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning October 23, 1967: October 28, 1967, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days 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 October 23, 1967: October 28, 1967, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
