Biography
Silas McGhee participated in the Greenwood, Mississippi civil-rights movement and is individually included in Payne’s account of the McGhee brothers’ arrests.
Payne explicitly states that all of the McGhee boys were regularly arrested during this period of the Greenwood movement. He reports at least seven arrests shared between Silas and Jake from June through December 1964. The account does not allocate the shared count or individually date Silas’s events. Individual jail admissions, discharges and actual custody durations remain unknown.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 151.
