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Russell F. Jorgensen

Released
Date of birth:13. 06. 1917
Date of death:04. 11. 2009
Age:92† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Time Imprisoned:
0 months
Support
Civil Rights
Russell F. Jorgensen

Biography

Russell F. Jorgensen, an American Friends Service Committee activist and the husband of fellow rider Mary L. Jorgensen, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 21, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and challenging segregation in interstate transportation — 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.

A later commemorative source reports that he spent forty days at Parchman, but exact admission and release dates are unresolved.

Case

Arrested: Jul 21, 1961
Incarcerated: Jul 21, 1961
Released: July 1961
Sentence: Jailed after the July 21, 1961 airport protest; released in July. Accounts differ on duration, so an exact release day remains unresolved.