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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Mississippi.
387Documented
0In custody
383Released
Eras of repression in Mississippi
Where Mississippi’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 365
1970s 7
1930s 4
1910s 4
1950s 3
2010s 1
Documented cases
387 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Peter Sterling
Released
Peter Sterling, a twenty-year-old Cornell undergraduate, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 30, 1961...
Daniel McIntre Stevens
Released
Daniel McIntre Stevens was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Richard C. Steward
Released
Richard C. Steward was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 30, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...
Peter Harry Stoner
Released
Peter Harry Stoner was arrested as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi on July 2, 1961 — the Civil Rights...
Terry Sullivan
Released
Terry John Sullivan was a Freedom Rider from Chicago, arrested on June 6, 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi and jai...
William Hooker Svanoe
Released
William Hooker Svanoe was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
John Charles Taylor Jr.
Released
John Charles Taylor Jr. was the chairman of Berkeley CORE and a pharmacy clerk, arrested at the Jackson, Missi...
Robert P. Taylor
Released
Robert P. Taylor was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13,...
Wayne Leslie Taylor
Released
Wayne Leslie Taylor was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...
Buron Lewis Teale
Released
Buron Lewis Teale was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...
Cecil A. Thomas
Released
Cecil A. Thomas was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...
Clarence Lloyd Thomas Jr.
Released
Clarence Lloyd Thomas Jr., a twenty-year-old American Baptist Theological Seminary student, was arrested in Ja...
Eddie Jean Thomas
Released
Eddie Jean Thomas was one of the demonstrators in the Jackson, Mississippi park desegregation protests and was...
Henry Thomas
Released
Henry Thomas was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...
Willie James Thomas
Released
Willie James Thomas was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...
Daniel Ray Thompson
Released
Daniel Ray Thompson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 14, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...
Jean Catherine Thompson
Released
Jean Catherine Thompson was a Freedom Rider arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 24, 1961, and she rode aga...
Shirley Thompson
Released
Shirley Thompson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 6, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...
Richard Thorne
Released
Richard Thorne, twenty-four years old, from Berkeley, California, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on Jun...
Leotis Thornton
Released
Leotis Thornton was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 2, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...
Percy D. Thornton
Released
Percy D. Thornton was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 4, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit...
Lonnie Thurman
Released
Lonnie Thurman was a teacher in Los Angeles, born about 1926 and was arrested on July 30, 1961 after traveling...
Claire Drew Toombs
Released
Claire Drew Toombs was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...
Sam-Joe Townsend
Released
Sam-Joe Townsend was a UCLA graduate student, born about 1933 and joined the July 30, 1961 Illinois Central tr...
Institutions in Mississippi
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Mississippi that appear in the census’s case files.
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman)
11 cases
Mississippi state and federal courtsJackson, Mississippi
10 cases
Montgomery County Jail (Winona, MS)Winona, Mississippi
4 cases
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm)Sunflower County, Mississippi
3 cases
Hinds County Jail / Laurel CourthouseLaurel, Mississippi
1 case
Pike County Jail / Magnolia (McComb, MS)Magnolia, Mississippi
1 case
Hinds County Jail (Jackson, MS)Jackson, Mississippi
1 case
Mississippi State Penitentiary at ParchmanParchman, Mississippi
1 case