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Raymond B. Randolph Jr.

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Full name:Raymond B. Randolph
Date of birth:1940
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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Raymond B. Randolph Jr.

Biography

Raymond B. Randolph Jr. was a twenty-one-year-old Virginia Union University student arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on June 7, 1961 as a Freedom Rider; he had already been arrested during a 1960 sit-in in Richmond, Virginia. His birth year, about 1940, is derived from his reported age at arrest. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds his named arrest photograph but does not establish his disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.

The jointly filed petition individually lists this rider and explicitly states that all petitioners entered pleas of not guilty for their Hinds County Court trials de novo. The previously blank plea field records that county-trial plea only; it does not change the later disposition or establish physical custody dates.

Thomas v. Mississippi certiorari petition, individually named cohort and county-trial pleas, PDF pages 1, 8, 14 and 33.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival in Jackson, June 7, 1961.
Arrested: Jun 7, 1961
Incarcerated: Jun 7, 1961
Sentence: Suspended 60-day sentence and a $200 fine; four months and a $200 fine on retrial. Conviction reversed.
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Not Guilty