Biography
Cecil A. Thomas was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.
The photograph title presents the name as Thomas A. Cecil while CRDL's authority record indicates Cecil A. Thomas; the authority form is used here.
