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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.
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...
Eddora Mae Manning
Released
Eddora Mae Manning was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...
Robert Martinson
Released
Robert Martinson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...
Robert William Mason
Released
Robert William Mason was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Norma Miriam Matzkin
Released
Norma Miriam Matzkin was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 8, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...
Paul Duncan McConnell
Released
Paul Duncan McConnell was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Helen Jean O'Neal McCray
Released
Helen Jean O'Neal McCray was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 19, 1961 — one of the arrests recorded...
Charles McDew
Released
Charles McDew was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was first jailed in 1960 leadi...
Joseph John Michael McDonald
Released
Joseph John Michael McDonald was twenty years old and from Oceanside, New York and rode from Montgomery and wa...
James Thomas McDonough
Released
James Thomas McDonough was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 6, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Willie McGee
Black laborer from Laurel, Mississippi accused November 1945 of raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife — a...
Lester Gene McKinnie
Released
Lester Gene McKinnie was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...
Landy McNair Jr.
Released
Landy McNair Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-...
Robert Allen Miller
Released
Robert Allen Miller was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 2, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...
Rudolph Mitaritonna
Released
Rudolph Mitaritonna was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...
William Benjamin Mitchell
Released
William Benjamin Mitchell was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Free...
John H. Moody
Released
John H. Moody was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides an...
David Kerr Morton
Released
David Kerr Morton was a twenty-one-year-old folk singer and writer arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11...
Bob Moses
Released
Robert Parris Moses was the principal SNCC organizer of voter registration in Mississippi from 1961 onward and...
Ruth Esther Moskowitz
Released
Ruth Esther Moskowitz was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 21, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Released
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 1961, for participating in the Free...
Fredrick Muntean
Released
Fredrick Muntean was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...
Grant Harland Muse Jr.
Released
Grant Harland Muse Jr., a thirty-five-year-old Episcopal priest at Good Shepherd Church in Berkeley, rode the...
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