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Paul Breines

Released
Date of birth:1941
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
Paul Breines

Biography

Paul Breines was a University of Wisconsin student and Student Council on Civil Rights member, born about 1941 and traveled by Greyhound from Nashville and was arrested with three other riders at the Jackson Greyhound terminal on July 21, 1961 — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.

The Sovereignty Commission photograph misspells his surname Brienes.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival at the Jackson Greyhound terminal, July 21, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 21, 1961
Incarcerated: Jul 21, 1961
Sentence: Jailed following the July 21, 1961 Freedom Ride arrest in Jackson. In his 2007 firsthand account, Breines described several days in the city jail followed by approximately one month at Parchman. The exact release date and total custody duration remain unresolved.