Biography
Travis O. Britt was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — 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.
Payne names Travis Britt among the Freedom Riders who had been released from jail before arriving in the McComb movement in 1961. The rare-name, Freedom Ride and Mississippi context matches Travis O. Britt’s existing June 8, 1961 arrest record. This corroborates actual custody and subsequent release without supplying an individual physical admission, discharge day or numerical duration. It does not create another McComb arrest.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 93.
