Biography
Joni Rabinowitz was an Antioch College student and SNCC voter-registration worker in Albany, Georgia. In a contemporary 1963 interview, she described spending 15 days in jail awaiting trial after distributing handbills opposing a bond issue for segregated facilities, and a separate seven days in jail on a vagrancy charge. Both resulted in convictions with suspended sentences. She was subsequently convicted of federal perjury on November 15, 1963 in the Albany civil-rights prosecution; that conviction did not establish continuous custody from her earlier local arrests.
Portrait: exact rectangular crop from the individually captioned photograph, original PDF page 8. Photographer not credited. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1963/2742/MIL2742.pdf#page=8. Historical educational identification; no open-license or permission claim.
Joni Rabinowitz was an Antioch College student and SNCC voter-registration worker in Albany, Georgia. In a contemporary 1963 interview, she described spending 15 days in jail awaiting trial after distributing handbills opposing a bond issue for segregated facilities, and a separate seven days in jail on a vagrancy charge. Both resulted in convictions with suspended sentences. She was subsequently convicted of federal perjury on November 15, 1963 in the Albany civil-rights prosecution; that conviction did not establish continuous custody from her earlier local arrests.
Historical record; no present custody or release status is asserted. Unknown physical custody endpoints remain blank.
