Biography
Willie Peacock was detained in Mississippi in the context of the civil-rights movement, as documented in Charles Payne’s interview-based history.
Payne individually names Peacock among five SNCC workers stopped while traveling to an Atlanta meeting in early June 1964. The account describes actual jail confinement and beatings in Columbus, Mississippi, then release the following day. Black’s traffic charges are not assigned to Peacock. No exact admission, discharge or numerical duration is supplied.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 207.
Portrait: native rectangular crop of the person explicitly captioned “far right” as Willie Peacock at Amzie Moore’s house, Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 233. Photograph credited to Lyon/Magnum. Original printed photograph retained without enhancement or reconstruction.
Payne individually names Peacock among those arrested during the March 1963 Greenwood protest, a separate episode from the June 1964 Columbus detention. The group headcount is internally inconsistent, saying eight while listing nine people. The source establishes this named arrest but not his exact physical admission, discharge or actual completed duration.
Source: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 124; Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 126.
