Joan C. Browning

Released
Date of birth:25. 07. 1942
Age:84
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:Georgia
Time Imprisoned:
1 Day
Support
Civil Rights
Joan C. Browning

Biography

Joan C. Browning was a nineteen-year-old Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist and former Georgia State College for Women student when Albany police arrested her with an interracial group of Freedom Riders on December 10, 1961. Her surviving chronology records release at about 4:30 p.m. on December 11 after 24.5 hours, followed by later county-jail confinement in the same campaign. She spent five days in custody in total.

Cases

Charges: Disorderly conduct, obstructing traffic and failure to obey an officer during the December 10, 1961 Albany train-station Freedom Ride
Arrested: Dec 10, 1961
Incarcerated: Dec 10, 1961
Released: Dec 11, 1961
Sentence: Released on bond about 4:30 p.m. December 11, 1961, after approximately 24.5 hours, according to her contemporaneous letter. This first stay was separate from the later December 14 county-jail confinement; a combined five-day estimate is not the duration of this first episode.
Charges: Albany Freedom Ride prosecution - separate return to Dougherty County jail after initial bond release
Incarcerated: Dec 14, 1961
Released: December 1961
Sentence: Returned to county jail December 14, 1961 after earlier bond release. Her jail-letter chronology places discharge in December but explicitly questions whether it occurred late December 18 or December 19; back at work December 21. Exact release day remains unresolved.

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