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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.
362Documented
0In custody
358Released
Eras of repression in Mississippi
Where Mississippi’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 340
1970s 7
1930s 4
1910s 4
1950s 3
2010s 1
Documented cases
362 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Alan Kaufman
Released
Alan Kaufman was born about 1940 and was arrested in Jackson on July 30, 1961 after traveling from New Orleans...
Barbara Jane Kay
Released
Barbara Jane Kay, a former teacher from Englewood, New Jersey, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 2...
Marian Alice Kendall
Released
Marian Alice Kendall was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Margaret Ann Kerr
Released
Margaret Ann Kerr was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...
Clennon Washington King Jr.
Released
Clennon Washington King Jr. was a Black college professor who in June 1958 tried to register for graduate stud...
Jimmy Dale Knight
Released
Jimmy Dale Knight was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 22, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent si...
Pauline Edythe Knight-Ofosu
Released
Pauline Edythe Knight-Ofosu, a twenty-year-old Tennessee State University student from Nashville, was arrested...
Karen Elizabeth Kytle
Released
Karen Elizabeth Kytle, an eighteen-year-old student from Oklahoma, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on Ju...
Candida Lall
Released
Candida Lall was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 23, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides an...
Eugene Lee
Released
Eugene Lee was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 4, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at...
Frederick Leonard
Released
Frederick Leonard was a Tennessee State University student and Freedom Rider with two documented 1961 arrests:...
Margaret Burr Leonard
Released
Margaret Burr Leonard was a Sophie Newcomb College student in New Orleans and participated in a Freedom Ride f...
William Leons
Released
William Leons was a UCLA graduate student, born about 1935 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and was arrested on J...
Allan Levine
Released
Allan Levine was a Montreal-born rabbi living in Bradford, Pennsylvania, who had participated in an Interfaith...
Eugene Levine
Released
Eugene Levine was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 19, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides a...
Norma Libson
Released
Norma Libson, born in 1934, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the F...
Claude Albert Liggins
Released
Claude Albert Liggins was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Morton G. Linder
Released
Morton G. Linder was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 23, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...
John Lowry
Released
John Lowry was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and c...
Orville B. Luster
Released
Orville B. Luster was an American Friends Service Committee activist who later served nearly twenty-five years...
Delores Williams Lynch
Released
Delores Williams Lynch was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in a nonviolen...
William Mahoney
Released
William Mahoney was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...
Saul Bernard Manfield
Released
Saul Bernard Manfield was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Herbert S. Mann
Released
Herbert S. Mann was a Los Angeles postal worker, born about 1925 in Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany and was...
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