Biography
James Robert Wahlstrom was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 6, 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 Jackson police placard in the verified photograph reads 20953, 6-6-61 where the catalog dates the record July 31, 1961; the placard date is entered.
