Margaret Burr Leonard

Released
Date of birth:05. 01. 1942
Date of death:14. 11. 2022
Age:80† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
Margaret Burr Leonard

Biography

Margaret Burr Leonard was a Sophie Newcomb College student in New Orleans and participated in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery to Jackson and was arrested on June 21, 1961; she later worked as a journalist in Florida — 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.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival in Jackson, June 21, 1961.
Arrested: Jun 21, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-06-21. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the release date — unresolved pending court, jail, or penitentiary records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record

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