Mississippi

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Janice LaJune Jackson

Released

Janice LaJune Jackson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in a...

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Joseph Jackson Jr.

Released

Joseph Jackson Jr. was one of the Tougaloo Nine, the nine Tougaloo College students who walked into the whites...

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Levi Jackson

Released

Levi Jackson participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.

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Richard Jewett

Released

Richard Jewett participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.

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June Johnson

Released

June Johnson was a 15-year-old Greenwood, Mississippi SNCC volunteer when she was arrested on June 9, 1963 at...

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Martha Jones

Released

Martha Jones participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.

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Robert Earl May, Jr.

A 14-year-old Black youth sentenced to 48 years (four consecutive 12-year terms) at Parchman Prison in Mississ...

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Mary Lane

Released

Mary Lane organized voter registration in Greenwood and served as a SNCC project director. She spent 48 days i...

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Albert Earl Lassiter

Released

Albert Earl Lassiter was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in at...

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Carole Merritt

Released

Carole Merritt was a SNCC field worker in Canton.

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Patricia Meyers

Released

Patricia Meyers participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.

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Clinton Montgomery

Released

Clinton Montgomery was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...

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Karim Njabafudi

Released

Karim Hekima Oman Wadu Njabafudi — born Larry Jackson in New Orleans, also recorded as Karim and "Brother Blac...

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Sylvester Lee Palmer

Released

Sylvester Lee Palmer participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.

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Annell Ponder

Released

Annell Ponder was a SCLC Citizenship Education Program field secretary who trained voter-registration teachers...

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Annie James Rankin

Released

Annie James Rankin was a Mississippi voting-rights and anti-poverty organizer. She participated in the 1968 Po...

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Aisha Salim

Released

Born Brenda Blount. Served as RNA Minister of Information at the time of the August 18, 1971 raid. One of thre...

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Ethel Sawyer

Released

Ethel Sawyer was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in at the whi...

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Henry Shields

Released

Henry Shields was one of three Black Mississippi sharecroppers sentenced to death on a tortured confession who...

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Carol Silver

Released

Carol Silver was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 7, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

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Widijonaiko Tjokroadisunatto

Released

Widijonaiko Tjokroadisunatto was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 29, 1961, for participating in a Fr...

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William Veal

Released

William Veal participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.

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Norma Wagner

Released

Norma Wagner was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 29, 1961, for participating in a Freedom Ride, havi...

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Tarik Ali

Citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and one of the RNA-11 charged after the August 18, 1971 FBI/Jackson Poli...