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Robertson Wood

AKA: Bob Wood
Released
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party protests
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Biography

Robertson Wood was a Canadian SNCC worker detained in Jackson, Mississippi during 1965 voting-rights protests. He described the conditions at the state fairgrounds detention compound in a contemporary first-person account.

Case

Charges: Detained during Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party voting-rights demonstrations; individual charge unverified
Incarcerated: June 1965
Released: Jun 24, 1965
Sentence: Ten days actually detained at the Mississippi state fairgrounds in Jackson; released June 24, 1965. Formal sentence unverified.