Biography
Don Hubbard was a New Orleans civil-rights organizer and a founder of the city’s Congress of Racial Equality chapter. He helped challenge segregation and police abuses in Louisiana and Mississippi. The ACLU of Louisiana documents numerous arrests arising from that work. In an interview, Hubbard recalled going to jail after challenging a whites-only water fountain; in another account, he described being arrested for loitering on his father’s front porch. The available sources do not establish exact arrest, jail admission or release dates, or individual sentence lengths. These documented arrests and jail recollections should not be mistaken for a verified long prison sentence.
Documented civil-rights custody
Don Hubbard was a New Orleans civil-rights organizer and a founder of the city’s Congress of Racial Equality chapter. He helped challenge segregation and police abuses in Louisiana and Mississippi. The ACLU of Louisiana documents numerous arrests arising from that work. In an interview, Hubbard recalled going to jail after challenging a whites-only water fountain; in another account, he described being arrested for loitering on his father’s front porch. The available sources do not establish exact arrest, jail admission or release dates, or individual sentence lengths. These documented arrests and jail recollections should not be mistaken for a verified long prison sentence.
Sources: ACLU of Louisiana, October 10, 2011; Don Hubbard interview, International Magazine Kreol; Don Hubbard’s personal recollection, August 28, 2013.
Photograph
Original-pixel crop from a 2003 New Orleans Panther forum group photograph by Nijme Rinaldi Nun, shared by Showdown In Desire. The source caption identifies this person third from the left in the back row. The small source portrait is soft; no detail was generated or retouched. Original photograph and positional caption. Copyrighted image; educational historical use, not an open-license or permission claim.
