Mississippi

Rita Carter

Released

Rita Carter was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 20, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Allen Cason Jr.

Released

Allen Cason Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...

Doris Jean Castle

Released

Doris Jean Castle was a New Orleans native and CORE activist who rode from Montgomery to Jackson on May 24, 19...

Frank Caston

Released

Frank Caston was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 6, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides and...

Price Chatham

Released

Price Chatham was a Freedom Rider reportedly born on June 5, 1931 in New Gulf, Texas — the Freedom Rides Museu...

Fred Douglas Clark

Released

Fred Douglas Clark was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent si...

Lucretia Collins

Released

Lucretia Collins was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides...

Alfred Lee Cook

Released

Alfred Lee Cook was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, during the Tougaloo Nine's sit-in at...

Ray Allen Cooper

Released

Ray Allen Cooper was a nineteen-year-old artist living in Spokane, Washington and was arrested on July 15, 196...

John Lee Copeland

Released

John Lee Copeland was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Ride...

Douglas MacArthur Cotton

Released

Douglas MacArthur Cotton was a Mississippi Freedom Rider and SNCC voter-registration organizer. His imprisonme...

Charles Earl Cox

Released

Charles Earl Cox was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 13, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit...

John Crocker Jr.

Released

John Crocker Jr. was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13,...

Edmond Dalbert Jr.

Released

Edmond Dalbert Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...

James Keet Davis Jr.

Released

James Keet Davis Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 30, 1961, for participating in the Freedom R...

Jefferson Davis

Released

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America. Captured in Georgia on May 10, 1865, h...

Jessie James Davis

Released

Jessie James Davis was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 9, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent si...

David J. Dennis Sr.

Released

David J. Dennis Sr., a CORE leader, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating i...

James Emerson Dennis

Released

James Emerson Dennis was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...

Alfonso Denson Jr.

Released

Alfonso Denson Jr., an eighteen-year-old Jim Hill High School student, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, o...

Dion Tyrone Diamond

Released

Dion Tyrone Diamond was a Freedom Rider and SNCC field secretary with two separately documented arrests in the...

John Luther Dolan

Released

John Luther Dolan was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...

Grady H. Donald

Released

Grady H. Donald, a minister, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the F...

Albert L. Dunn

Released

Albert L. Dunn was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides a...