Biography
Terry Perlman Hickerson, nineteen years old at the time, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 8, 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.
Her own account describes confinement with approximately forty women in the Hinds County jail and then three women to a cell in maximum security at Parchman Penitentiary; the exact transfer and release dates are unresolved.
Her birth year, about 1942, is an estimate; no exact birth date has been located.
The certiorari petition individually names this rider and distinguishes the initial municipal sentence (sixty days suspended and a $200 fine) from the county-court trial de novo sentence (four months in jail; the petition is internally inconsistent about the county fine). These are imposed sentences, not proof that four months were served. Existing physical custody endpoints, actual-duration evidence and any later reversal remain unchanged. 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.
