Biography
Marta C. Kusic joined the first recorded sit-in inside the White House on March 11, 1965, demanding federal protection for voting-rights marchers after Bloody Sunday in Selma. After refusing repeated orders to leave, the demonstrators were arrested at about 6 p.m. and convicted of unlawful entry; the D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions in 1966.
The article’s sidebar individually names this woman with Sheila Ryan among those arrested in 1965 for the White House sit-in protesting killings and repression in Selma. The surrounding article discusses the later execution of sentences but does not establish each named woman’s exact admission, release or complete duration. Washington Free Press, November23,1967 vol2 no19, original PDF page 4. Source: https://washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1967-11-23-wfp-vol-2-no-19.pdf#page=4
Contemporary reporting names Kusic among the women in the White House sit-in case on daytime jail work release. Daytime work release is not treated as an end to custody, and Ryan’s six-month sentence is not assigned to Kusic.
