Biography
Felix Singer was a 32-year-old Freedom Rider from Chicago jailed at the Parchman state penitentiary in Mississippi in 1961. For their total passive resistance he and Terry Sullivan were dragged naked across concrete floors with 'wrist breakers' and shocked with electric cattle prods.
The Civil Rights Digital Library identifies him as a thirty-two-year-old Chicago writer at his arrest — June 2, 1961, at the Jackson Trailways terminal — giving a birth year of about 1929. His individually identified Sovereignty Commission mugshot (Jackson police placard 20938, dated 6-2-61) is attached.
Deputy clerk Robert Lilly’s sworn October 26, 1964 affidavit reports the following Hinds County Court disposition: County Court docket 12,782: directed verdict for the defendant. This is the legal disposition of the Freedom Ride prosecution, not evidence that physical custody continued until that date or that a jail release occurred then. Earlier municipal convictions, where already documented, are preserved as earlier events. The affidavit prints the date as 12-23-62. Because the calendar date may be a clerical error, its exact year/day is not silently repaired or entered as an endpoint.
