Biography
Larry Fred Hunter was an eighteen-year-old Tennessee State University student when he joined the May 28, 1961 Freedom Ride from Nashville to Jackson, Mississippi. Police arrested him at the bus station, and a court imposed a sixty-day sentence. Hunter was confined in the Hinds County jail and the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman before release on bond after 39 days. Tennessee State expelled him for participating in the ride.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning May 28, 1961: July 6, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 39 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning May 28, 1961: July 6, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 39 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
