Biography
Yolanda King was jailed on November 29, 1984 after she joined hands with other activists in the South African Embassy driveway and refused police orders to leave. She pleaded not guilty the next day; prosecutors dismissed the charge for lack of prosecutive merit.
Overnight custody verified
The contemporary November 30 report, available in indexed full text, supplies actual detention and release days rather than treating dismissal alone as discharge. Direct page retrieval failed; it is not claimed directly read. Existing identified portrait retained. A separate January 1986 protest is a further case lead, not substituted into this 1984 episode.
Custody record
A contemporary interview quotes King describing two arrests with a night in jail on each occasion. The separate events and their individual release dates still require mapping; they have not been assigned an invented continuous interval.
In Mary McCrank’s firsthand February 10, 1986 Monroe Doctrine interview, Yolanda King individually dates her Atlanta Winn Dixie anti-apartheid criminal-trespass arrest to January 7 and says she spent a night in jail on both of her two arrests. This establishes her separate January 7, 1986 arrest and actual overnight detention. Jail admission is limited to January 1986 MONTH because the source does not separately date the physical intake day. This was distinct from November 29, 1984 Washington, D.C. custody already recorded. A night is not assumed to mean 24 hours, and no January 8 physical discharge day is invented. Her siblings Bernice and Martin III are captioned as arrested too, but her first-person statement does not establish their individual custody durations. The current portrait and earlier case remain unchanged.
