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Dan B. Speed

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:Florida
Support
Civil Rights
Dan B. Speed

Biography

Dan B. Speed was the car-pool coordinator of the Inter-Civic Council in Tallahassee, arrested without warrant and convicted with Rev. C. K. Steele and 19 others in 1956 for operating the bus-boycott car pool as an 'illegal transportation system.'

Case

Charges: Operating an unlicensed transportation system
Arrested: August 1956
Sentence: 60-day suspended sentence and a $500 fine
Convicted: Yes