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Kipp Dawson

AKA: Kipp M. Dawson
Released
Date of birth:1945
Age:81
Era:1960s
State:California
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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.

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.