Biography
Worth Long was a SNCC Executive Committee member and Philander Smith College student jailed during the November 1962 Little Rock sit-ins against segregated lunch counters. The contemporary Student Voice individually dates his arrest with William Hansen to November 28 and their release on $500 bond each to November 30. It describes their attempt to take seats at a roped-off Walgreens counter and the ensuing protest by students. Exact first physical jail admission and final court disposition are not supplied; no numerical custody duration or present-day status is inferred.
Contemporary SNCC custody report
Worth Long was a SNCC Executive Committee member and Philander Smith College student jailed during the November 1962 Little Rock sit-ins against segregated lunch counters. The contemporary Student Voice individually dates his arrest with William Hansen to November 28 and their release on $500 bond each to November 30. It describes their attempt to take seats at a roped-off Walgreens counter and the ensuing protest by students. Exact first physical jail admission and final court disposition are not supplied; no numerical custody duration or present-day status is inferred.
Individual physical custody is established by the report; warrant, offense, arrest, trial and release dates are not interchangeable. Unnamed demonstrators are not assigned this person’s custody history. No race, gender, date of birth, age, portrait or organizational taxonomy value is inferred from a name, appearance or membership. The historical account is not a claim of present-day detention.
The Student Voice, volume 3 number 4, December 19, 1962, original pages 1, 4.