Mississippi

Robert Wesby

Released

Robert Wesby was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Lula Mae White

Released

Lula Mae White, a twenty-two-year-old Chicago schoolteacher who had traveled from Montgomery, was arrested in...

Melvin Lorenzo White

Released

Melvin Lorenzo White was nineteen when he traveled from Montgomery to Jackson and was arrested at the Jackson...

Douglas Albert Williams

Released

Douglas Albert Williams was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Freed...

Ralph Alan Williams

Released

Ralph Alan Williams was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 23, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...

Helene Dorothy Wilson

Released

Helene Dorothy Wilson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Jack Mikhail Wolfson

Released

Jack Mikhail Wolfson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Lewell A. Woods Jr.

Released

Lewell A. Woods Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 10, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...

Vernon Powell Woodward

Released

Vernon Powell Woodward was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 30, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...

Leslie Word

Released

Leslie Word was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 2, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Tanya Wren

Released

Tanya Wren was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 30, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Clarence Melvin Wright

Released

Clarence Melvin Wright was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Leroy Glenn Wright

Released

Leroy Glenn Wright was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...

Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff

Released

Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 2, 1961, for participating in the Freed...

Merrill Orne Young

Released

Merrill Orne Young was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 1...

Paul Edward Young

Released

Paul Edward Young was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 7, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit...

Robert Zellner

Released

Robert Zellner was a SNCC field secretary — the only white participant in the Oct. 4, 1961 McComb, Mississippi...

Ellen Lee Ziskind

Released

Ellen Lee Ziskind was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 29, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...

Richard Lewis Zuchman

Released

Richard Lewis Zuchman was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

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John Ball

Released

John Ball was a SNCC worker jailed in Holmes County, Mississippi in May 1963 following the firebombing of voti...

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Jason L. Blalock

Released

Jason L. Blalock was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...

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Alma Bosley

Released

Alma Bosley was a CORE worker in Canton.

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James Cleo Bradford

Released

James Cleo Bradford was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in at...

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Ed Brown

Released

Ed Brown was one of three Black Mississippi sharecroppers sentenced to death on a tortured confession whose ca...