Biography
John Thomas Porter was the pastor of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham and once an assistant to Martin Luther King Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist in Montgomery. He was one of the eight petitioners in Walker v. 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.
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.
