Mary Lane

Released
Date of birth:16. 12. 1939
Date of death:15. 02. 2015
Age:75† Deceased
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Biography

Mary Lane organized voter registration in Greenwood and served as a SNCC project director. She spent 48 days imprisoned at Parchman in 1963 and later represented the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Case

Charges: Imprisonment following Greenwood civil-rights organizing; individual statutory charge unverified
Incarcerated: 1963
Released: 1963
Sentence: Forty-eight days actually spent at Parchman in 1963. Exact custody endpoints and imposed sentence remain unverified.

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