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Willie Vaughn

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Alabama
Time Imprisoned:
6 Days
Support
Civil Rights Movement
Willie Vaughn

Biography

Willie Vaughn participated in the Fort Deposit protests and was jailed at Hayneville. He escaped the shooting after his release.

Photo: Alabama Department of Public Safety archival identification card, reproduced by Civil Rights Movement Archive. Original-image crop; identified by the source (single photograph on the card labelled Willie Vaughn). Source: https://www.crmvet.org/docs/afic.htm . Non-free archival image used under the site's educational/memorial rationale; no permission or open-license claim.

Case

Charges: Disturbing the peace and parading without a permit (contemporary SNCC report)
Arrested: Aug 14, 1965
Incarcerated: Aug 14, 1965
Released: Aug 20, 1965
Sentence: Pretrial detention at Lowndes County Jail, Hayneville; released August 20, 1965. No individual sentencing judgment verified.