Biography
Charles Joseph Jones — his name also appears as Joseph Charles Jones — was a founding SNCC activist arrested as a Freedom Rider in Montgomery, Alabama on May 25, 1961; the Civil Rights Digital Library holds a Montgomery County Sheriff's Department photograph of him dated that day. He was later jailed twice with Martin Luther King Jr. during the Albany Movement in Georgia. The catalog does not establish the dates or durations of those custody episodes, so the Albany jailings are described here rather than entered as dated case rows.
Zinn identifies Charles Jones as arrested at the Albany railway terminal on December 10, 1961. He reports Jones’s release on bond after the Wednesday county-court hearing, December 13. This individually dated Albany confinement is separate from Jones’s Montgomery and Rock Hill cases. Howard Zinn, Albany, Southern Regional Council SRC22, January 8, 1962, original PDF page 15. Source: https://www.crmvet.org/info/6201_zinn_albany.pdf#page=15
