Biography
Lafayette Surney is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Mississippi.
Payne names Surney among the movement workers arrested during the March 1963 Greenwood protest following the shooting at the Greene family home. The text’s printed headcount says eight while listing nine names; this entry relies on the individually printed name, not the inconsistent group total. No exact admission, discharge or actual duration is supplied.
Sources: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 124.
