Biography
Janie Campbell is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Mississippi.
Bob Moses’s jail letter, quoted by Payne in the late-1961 McComb organizing history, individually names this person in actual confinement at the county jail in Magnolia, Mississippi. The account describes a male drunk-tank group and separately names Myrtis Bennett and Janie Campbell in another cell. The surrounding thirty-nine-day group description is not assigned as an individually proved duration. The account places this actual confinement in the late-1961 episode, but does not establish this individual’s admission or release date.
Sources: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 98.
