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Kipp Dawson

Released
Full name:Kipp M. Dawson
Date of birth:1945
Age:81
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
29 Days
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Kipp Dawson

Biography

Kipp Dawson organized civil-rights sit-ins against discriminatory hiring in San Francisco and helped organize the Free Speech Movement at San Francisco State. She served 29 days in jail in 1966 and later worked in antiwar and labor organizing.

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship biography reports that Kipp Dawson was arrested six times in connection with her civil-rights organizing and separately states that she served 29 days in jail in 1966. It does not supply individual dates for all six arrests; the existing 1966 custody record is preserved without adding six assumed intervals. Source.

Case

Charges: Civil-rights sit-in prosecution — exact individual statutory counts unverified
Incarcerated: 1966
Released: 1966
Sentence: Served 29 days in jail in 1966 following sit-ins against discriminatory employment practices in San Francisco. Individual arrest, sentencing and release days and the precise jail remain unverified. This is not entered as the December 1964 UC Berkeley Sproul Hall case.