Biography
Jerome H. Smith was a twenty-two-year-old CORE organizer and former Southern University student from New Orleans, arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 25, 1961 as a Freedom Rider. Sovereignty Commission material sometimes mislabels him Jerome M. Smith. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds his named arrest photograph but does not establish his disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning April 17, 1961: May 17, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 30 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 April 17, 1961: May 17, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 30 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
