Biography
Jack Chatfield was a SNCC field secretary working on the Southwest Georgia Voting Project. The December 19, 1962 Student Voice reports his November 12 arrest in Albany after talking with economic-withdrawal demonstrators. It explicitly describes six days in the city jail followed by release on bond, then two additional days in jail after his November 21 trial. The sixty-day sentence was to be appealed and is not treated as sixty days served. The two source-reported stays total eight actual days, excluding the intervening period on bond; exact physical endpoints remain unknown.
Contemporary SNCC custody report
Jack Chatfield was a SNCC field secretary working on the Southwest Georgia Voting Project. The December 19, 1962 Student Voice reports his November 12 arrest in Albany after talking with economic-withdrawal demonstrators. It explicitly describes six days in the city jail followed by release on bond, then two additional days in jail after his November 21 trial. The sixty-day sentence was to be appealed and is not treated as sixty days served. The two source-reported stays total eight actual days, excluding the intervening period on bond; exact physical endpoints remain unknown.
Individual physical custody is established by the report; warrant, offense, arrest, trial and release dates are not interchangeable. Unnamed demonstrators are not assigned this person’s custody history. No race, gender, date of birth, age, portrait or organizational taxonomy value is inferred from a name, appearance or membership. The historical account is not a claim of present-day detention.
The Student Voice, volume 3 number 4, December 19, 1962, original pages 2.
