Biography
Jake McGhee was detained in Mississippi in the context of the civil-rights movement, as documented in Charles Payne’s interview-based history.
Payne reports Jake McGhee’s arrest three days after the August 15, 1964 shooting of his brother Silas; only the source month is recorded. A separate statement describes at least seven arrests shared between Jake and Silas during June–December 1964, not seven for each person. No admission, discharge or numerical duration is inferred.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 151; original PDF page 152.
In the later Greenwood Movement boycott, Payne reports that a court order prohibited picketing within three hundred feet of stores and that Jake McGhee repeatedly violated the order and was repeatedly arrested. The passage does not individually date or count these later arrests or establish admissions, releases or durations; it is not converted into additional dated custody episodes.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 247.
