Biography
Landy McNair Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at the Greyhound bus terminal — 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.
Custody record
The original July 14, 1964 COFO WATS report names McNair among Drew sidewalk arrestees detained in a basement. This is separate from the recorded Birmingham detention; federal removal proceedings the next morning do not establish physical release that day.
Sources: Source 1; Source 2; Source 3; Source 4; Source 5; Source 6; Source 7; Source 8.
Payne’s history names Landy McNair as a Mississippi student worker who arrived in Ruleville with Charles McLaurin in August 1962. It reports that the two were arrested and released without charge. Only the arrest month is recorded; the source supplies no exact first jail admission, physical discharge or actual duration. This is separate from the already documented 1961 Jackson sit-in and 1963 William Moore memorial-march arrests.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 115.
