Mississippi

Charles David Myers

Released

Charles David Myers was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...

Samuel Timothy Nash

Released

Samuel Timothy Nash was a twenty-four-year-old part-time United States Postal Service employee and traveled fr...

Frank Arthur Nelson

Released

Frank Arthur Nelson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...

Claire O'Connor

Released

Claire O'Connor was a twenty-two-year-old nurse and University of Minnesota student arrested in Jackson, Missi...

Imari Obadele

Released

Born Richard Bullock Henry in Philadelphia. With his brother Milton (Gaidi Obadele) co-founded the Republic of...

Elihu Osby Jr.

Released

Elihu Osby Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 22, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-i...

Robert Lewis Owens

Released

Robert Lewis Owens was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...

Hilmar Ehrenfried Pabel

Released

Hilmar Ehrenfried Pabel was a photojournalist for the German magazine Quick, born September 17, 1910 in Rawits...

Alpha Zara Palmer

Released

Alpha Zara Palmer was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...

Ernest Patton Jr.

Released

Ernest Patton Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...

Max Gregory Pavesic

Released

Max Gregory Pavesic was a UCLA student, born about 1939 and was arrested on July 30, 1961 after traveling by I...

Philip Jonathan Perkins

Released

Philip Jonathan Perkins was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...

Jean Estil Kidwell Pestana

Released

Jean Estil Kidwell Pestana was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Fr...

Lestra Peterson

Released

Lestra Peterson was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...

Alphonso Kelly Petway

Released

Alphonso Kelly Petway was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Kredelle Petway

Released

Kredelle Petway, born about 1941 and later Kredelle Petway Dendy, was arrested with her father, Matthew Petway...

Matthew Petway

Released

Matthew Petway, an African American clergyman and civil-rights worker, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, o...

West Davis Phillips

Released

West Davis Phillips was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ri...

Evelyn Pierce

Released

Evelyn Pierce was one of the students arrested in the March 1961 Jackson library sit-in and was arrested on Ma...

Robert Laughlin Pierson

Released

Robert Laughlin Pierson was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on Septem...

Joan Pleune

Released

Joan Pleune was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Katherine A. Pleune

Released

Katherine A. Pleune was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 10, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...

Philip M. Posner

Released

Philip M. Posner was a Hebrew Union College student in Los Angeles, born about 1938 and rode the July 30, 1961...

Michael Harry Powell

Released

Michael Harry Powell was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 23, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...