Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement

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155 Abernathy, Ralph, 18, 52 Aelony, Zev, 80–81 Alabama Black Liberation Front (ABLF), 106, 109. See also Black Panther Party Albany, GA, 1, 65–66; Freedom Riders and, 67; freedom songs and, 70–71; imprisonment of women in, 68–70, 74–75 (see also Women, imprisonment of); Martin Luther King Jr., and, 72–73, 75–77; mass arrest in, 67–70, 72–73, 75; Laurie Pritchett and, 67, 69, 76, 77 Americus, GA, 80–82 Anderson, William, 1, 5, 66, 72 Index Baltimore Afro-American, 24–25, 30 Barnett, Ross, 53, 56 Barry, Marion, 64 Belfrage, Sally, 86–87, 94–95 Birmingham, AL, 106, 109 Black Panther Party (BPP), 108–11. See also Alabama Black Liberation Front; Black power movement Black power movement, 102–3, 104, 106. See also Black Panther Party Bond, Julian, 38 Browning, Joan, 68–69 Burks, Mary Fair, 15 156 | Index Carey, Gordon, 82 Carmichael, Stokeley, 102, 104 Charlotte, NC, 107, 109 Civil rights activists, arrest of, 28–30, 33, 37; Albany, GA, in, 67–70, 72–73, 75; Americus, GA, in, 80–82; Atlanta, GA, in, 47–48; Black Panther Party and, 108–11; black power era during, 106–7, 109, 114–15; Freedom Rides during, 51–57; Freedom Summer during, 86–87, 94; Greensboro, NC, in, 24–25; Jackson, MS, in, 78–79; legal defense and, 39–41, 51, 59–60, 79–80; Montgomery, AL, in, 18–19; NAACP and, 7–8, 37–41, 48–49; Nashville, TN, in, 32–34; Orangeburg, SC, in 31–32, 45; penal reform and, 60, 94–97, 112; Raleigh, NC, in, 28; Rock Hill, SC, in, 45–46; Selma, GA, in, 100; sexual abuse of women and, 93–94; Tallahassee, FL, in, 34–36 Clark, Jim, 100 Collier, Geneva, 69, 75 Concerned Citizens for Justice and Urgent Inc., 109 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 11, 26, 98; black power and, 103; Freedom Rides and, 49–50, 59–61; Freedom Summer and, 99; jail-nobail and, 39, 44–46, 59–62; Journey of Reconciliation and, 11–12; legal defense of activists and, 39–40, 51, 59; Orangeburg, SC, in, 31; Plaquemine, LA, in, 82–83; Rock Hill, SC, in, 45–47; Tallahassee, TN, in, 34–35 Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO ), 106 Dennis, Dave, 50 Diamond, Dion, 95–97, 101 Durr, Clifford, 14 Farmer, James, 51, 54, 56, 82 Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), 10–11, 19 Freedom Army, 99–100 Freedom Rides, 49–52, 55–57, 61; arrest of activists during, 50, 52–57; CORE and, 49, 51, 59; cost to authorities and, 57–58; NAACP and, 51, 59 Freedom Rides Coordinating Committee , 50, 54, 56 Freedom Songs, 70–72 Freedom Summer, 85, 98–100; CORE and, 99; imprisonment of activists during, 86–89, 90, 94–95; imprisonment of women during, 89–91; response of white Mississippians to, 86–87; SNCC and, 99; violence against participants during, 90–93 Gaither, Tom, 45–47 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 91–92 Harvey, Claire Collins, 56 Height, Dorothy, 93 Imprisonment, civil rights activists of. See Civil rights activists, arrest of Jackson, MS, 77–78, 107 Jail-no-bail, 77; black power and, 105; CORE and, 39, 44–46, 59–61; Freedom Army and, 99–100; NAACP and, 7–8, 37, 39–41, 48, 51, 78–80, 118; Diane Nash and, 74–75; Rock Hill jail-in and, 45– 47; sit-in movement and, 32–34, 37–38, 41; SNCC and, 37; women and, 68–70, 74–75, 89–94 Index | 157 Joan Little Defense Committee, 113 Journey of Reconciliation, 11–12, 49 Kennard, Clyde, 21, 119–120 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 35, 78, 119; Albany, GA, in, 72–3, 75–77; arrest of, 17–18, 73, 75–76, 100; bail rejection of, 22, 28; Montgomery Bus Boycott and, 17–20 King, Mary, 90–91, 95 Lawson, James, 32–33, 37, 40, 99 Lee, Herbert, 64 Lewis, John, 33, 60 Little, Joan, 112–14 Lynching, 1 Marshall, Thurgood, 40, 51, 59 McCain, James, 31 McComb, MS, 63–65 Meredith March, 102 Milenburg, Peter, 88–89 Mississippi Freedom Summer. See Freedom Summer Montgomery Bus Boycott, 13–15, 17–20 Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), 17–18 Moses, Robert, 63–65 Muste, Abraham, 36 Nash, Diane, 46, 73–75 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 7–9, 13, 32; Albany, GA, in, 66; Freedom Rides and, 51, 59; Jackson, MS, in, 77–80; jail-no-bail and 7–8, 37, 39–41...