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T. L. Fisher

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1960s
State:Alabama
Time Imprisoned:
5 Days
Support
Civil Rights
T. L. Fisher

Biography

T. L. Fisher was a Birmingham movement minister and one of the eight petitioners in Walker v.

The Rev. City of Birmingham, convicted of criminal contempt for going forward with the Good Friday and Easter 1963 marches against segregation in defiance of a state-court injunction. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions 5-4 in 1967, and the eight served five-day jail terms that fall.

Calculated release date for the stay beginning October 23, 1967: October 28, 1967, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.

Calculated release date

Calculated release date for the stay beginning October 23, 1967: October 28, 1967, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.

Portrait: the Southern Courier, November 11–12, 1967, page 1, explicitly identifies the Rev. T. L. Fisher at the left of the photograph. This is an unretouched crop; photographer uncredited. Source.

Case

Birmingham City Jail
Charges: Criminal contempt of court
Arrested: Oct 23, 1967
Incarcerated: Oct 23, 1967
Released: Oct 28, 1967
Sentence: Five days in jail and a $50 fine Calculated release date for the stay beginning October 23, 1967: October 28, 1967, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Alabama