Biography
William Leons was a UCLA graduate student, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and was arrested on July 30, 1961 after traveling from New Orleans to Jackson by Illinois Central train — 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.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning July 30, 1961: September 7, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 39 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 July 30, 1961: September 7, 1961, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 39 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
