Biography
Claire O'Connor was a twenty-two-year-old nurse and University of Minnesota student arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on June 11, 1961 as a Freedom Rider. Her birth year, about 1939, is derived from her reported age at arrest. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds her named arrest photograph — its original metadata misspells her surname O'Conner — but does not establish her disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.
The jointly filed petition individually lists this rider and explicitly states that all petitioners entered pleas of not guilty for their Hinds County Court trials de novo. The previously blank plea field records that county-trial plea only; it does not change the later disposition or establish physical custody dates.
