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Paul Breines

Released
Date of birth:c. 1941
Age:85
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Civil Rights Student Council on Civil Rights
Paul Breines

Biography

Paul Breines was a University of Wisconsin student and Student Council on Civil Rights member, born about 1941 and traveled by Greyhound from Nashville and was arrested with three other riders at the Jackson Greyhound terminal on July 21, 1961 — 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 Sovereignty Commission photograph misspells his surname Brienes.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival at the Jackson Greyhound terminal, July 21, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 21, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-07-21. 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