Mississippi

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O. G. Brown

Released

O. G. Brown was a Black youth in Mississippi sentenced to death for the alleged theft of $1.85, one of the leg...

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Patricia Elaine Bryant

Released

Patricia Elaine Bryant was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 9, 1961, for participating in a Freedom R...

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George A. Burrows

Released

George A. Burrows was a Black cook in Harrison County, Mississippi who, after a dispute over wages, was framed...

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Bert S. Cage

Released

Bert S. Cage was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Eddie Carthan

Released

Eddie James Carthan was elected in 1977 as the first Black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi since Reconstruction —...

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Lewell A. Cecil

Released

Lewell A. Cecil was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in the Freedom Ride sequence of June 10, 1961 — one of t...

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C. O. Chinn

Released

C. O. Chinn supported voter registration and the Canton boycott. He was jailed during the January 1964 crackdo...

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Chuma

Released

Citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and one of the 'RNA-11,' arrested in the August 18, 1971 FBI/police raid...

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James Collier

Released

James Collier organized voter registration with SNCC in Canton.

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Chase A. Davis

Released

Chase A. Davis, 21, was arrested in Florida on Mississippi charges alleging he sent Facebook death threats to...

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Geraldine Edwards

Released

Geraldine Edwards was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in at th...

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Yank Ellington

Released

Yank Ellington was one of three Black Mississippi sharecroppers sentenced to death on a tortured confession wh...

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Milton Esco

Released

Milton Esco participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.

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James Walker Evans

Released

James Walker Evans was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1961, as one of fifteen Episcopal cl...

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James Edward Garrett

A 25-year-old Black man arrested by Marshall County, Mississippi deputies on a 1975 armed-robbery charge who w...

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Claude O. Grant

Released

Claude O. Grant was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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George Greene

Released

George Greene was a Greenwood civil-rights organizer who worked with SNCC and the NAACP youth movement. His 19...

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Lawrence Guyot

Released

Lawrence Guyot was a Tougaloo College student and SNCC field organizer who became chairman of the Mississippi...

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Lavone Hampton

Released

Lavone Hampton was a SNCC worker jailed in Holmes County, Mississippi in May 1963 following the firebombing of...

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John Hardy

Released

John Hardy was a SNCC voter-registration worker who, after a registrar struck him on the head with a pistol in...

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Jesse Harris

Released

Jesse Harris was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in a sit-in against segr...

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Pete Hewitt

Released

Pete Hewitt participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.

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Theodis Hewitt

Released

Theodis Hewitt worked on the Canton voter-registration campaign.

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Edward S. Hollander

Released

Edward S. Hollander organized civil-rights work in Canton.