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Joseph Edward Gerbac

Released
Date of birth:c. 1939
Age:87
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Civil Rights
Joseph Edward Gerbac

Biography

Joseph Edward Gerbac was a UCLA student, born about 1939 and rode the Illinois Central train from New Orleans and was arrested in Jackson on July 30, 1961 — 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 catalog photograph title misspells his first name Joesph.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival at the Jackson Illinois Central terminal, July 30, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 30, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-07-30. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the release date — unresolved pending court, jail, or penitentiary records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record