Biography
Rosemary Freeman was a Mississippi civil-rights fieldworker jailed in Winona in June 1963 after returning from a citizenship and voter-registration workshop in South Carolina. She was individually named among the activists who challenged segregation at the bus station lunch counter on June 9. Police arrested the group and took them to Montgomery County Jail, where officers denied telephone calls and brutally beat several of her companions. The Smithsonian Folkways biography of Fannie Lou Hamer records the fieldworkers' actual release on June 12, 1963. Freeman's own underlying charge, trial outcome, birth and death dates, and a securely identified portrait remain unverified.
Rosemary Freeman was a Mississippi civil-rights fieldworker jailed in Winona in June 1963 after returning from a citizenship and voter-registration workshop in South Carolina. She was individually named among the activists who challenged segregation at the bus station lunch counter on June 9. Police arrested the group and took them to Montgomery County Jail, where officers denied telephone calls and brutally beat several of her companions. The Smithsonian Folkways biography of Fannie Lou Hamer records the fieldworkers' actual release on June 12, 1963. Freeman's own underlying charge, trial outcome, birth and death dates, and a securely identified portrait remain unverified.
Printed Rose Mary Freeman, she is named with Warren Tucker Jr. and Horace Huntley in the Minnesota AAAC prosecution over the January administration-building occupation. The article reports March indictments for unlawful assembly, inciting riot and property damage and a postponed plea hearing. It does not prove personal jail admission, a conviction or completed custody. The existing Sacramento Panther Warren Tucker is not assigned this Minneapolis allegation.
