Biography
Priscilla Stephens participated in the 1960 Tallahassee lunch-counter sit-ins and jail-in against segregation. Contemporary correspondence individually names her among eight prisoners who chose jail following their March 17 trial; an April 28 letter addresses her at Leon County Jail.
Patricia Stephens’s letter in the April 1960 CORE-Lator individually names Priscilla Stephens among eight people then in jail after the Tallahassee Woolworth sit-in prosecution. The letter dates their trial to March 17, 1960 and reports sixty days or a $300 fine on the inciting-to-riot count. Clyde R. Appleton’s April 28 letter separately addresses Priscilla and the other seven at Leon County Jail and describes them as still jailed. The sixty-day term is the imposed sentence, not a verified completed total. No exact admission or release day, or another prisoner’s forty-nine-day total, is assigned to her.
CORE-Lator, April 1960, pages 1–2. Clyde R. Appleton letter, April 28, 1960, State Archives of Florida.
