Biography
Michael R. Grubbs was a UCLA student, born about 1935 in Coffeyville, Kansas, and the son of the activist Darnell Medlock Grubbs and was arrested on July 30, 1961 after taking the Illinois Central train from New Orleans to Jackson — 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.
The catalog spells his birthplace Coffeeville.
