Biography
Joni Rabinowitz was an Antioch College student and SNCC voter-registration worker in Albany, Georgia. In a contemporary 1963 interview, she described spending 15 days in jail awaiting trial after distributing handbills opposing a bond issue for segregated facilities, and a separate seven days in jail on a vagrancy charge. Both resulted in convictions with suspended sentences. She was subsequently convicted of federal perjury on November 15, 1963 in the Albany civil-rights prosecution; that conviction did not establish continuous custody from her earlier local arrests.
Portrait: exact rectangular crop from the individually captioned photograph, original PDF page 8. Photographer not credited. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1963/2742/MIL2742.pdf#page=8. Historical educational identification; no open-license or permission claim.
Joni Rabinowitz was an Antioch College student and SNCC voter-registration worker in Albany, Georgia. In a contemporary 1963 interview, she described spending 15 days in jail awaiting trial after distributing handbills opposing a bond issue for segregated facilities, and a separate seven days in jail on a vagrancy charge. Both resulted in convictions with suspended sentences. She was subsequently convicted of federal perjury on November 15, 1963 in the Albany civil-rights prosecution; that conviction did not establish continuous custody from her earlier local arrests.
Historical record; no present custody or release status is asserted. Unknown physical custody endpoints remain blank.
The contemporary May 21, 1963 SNCC newsletter dates her Albany handbill arrest to May 21 and names her among those then in city jail. This identifies the already-recorded handbill case; it does not date the separate vagrancy arrest or federal perjury proceedings. Existing fifteen-day and seven-day actual-duration records remain unchanged; no intake or release date is reconstructed.
