Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff

Released
Date of birth:1915
Date of death:1994
Gender:Female
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff

Biography

Elizabeth Porter Wyckoff was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 2, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — 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: Breach of the peace
Arrested: Jun 2, 1961
Sentenced: Jun 5, 1961
Incarcerated: June 1961
Sentence: The Fifth Circuit account reproduced in Bailey v. Patterson records a June 5, 1961 sentence of two months suspended and a $200 fine. Her habeas proceedings confirm actual detention in Hinds County jail; the district-court account describes a four-month commitment. These reported sentence terms are not treated as time served. Incarceration is recorded at June 1961 month precision; the exact admission and release dates remain unresolved.
Convicted: Yes

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