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Charles Earl Cox

Released
Date of birth:1943
Age:83
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Charles Earl Cox

Biography

Charles Earl Cox was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 13, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at a Walgreens lunch counter — 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.

Case

Charges: Walgreens lunch-counter sit-in, Jackson — one of four arrested July 13, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 13, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-07-13. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the release date — unresolved pending court, jail, or penitentiary records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record