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Dixie Jails6 ‘Riders’From StateJACKSON, Miss. (AP) - SixMinnesota “freedom riders” who walked into the Negro waiting room of a bus ^epot in defiance of Mississippi’s segregation laws, today were starting four month jail terms.The six also were fined $200 apiece, which must be worked out at the rate of $5 per day at the end of their sentences if not paid before that.The penalty was the maximum and brought to 110 the number sentenced since Negroes and whites started a joint assault on this state’s Jim Crow laws three weeks ago.The prisoners could gain freedom by filing notices of appeal and posting $500 bonds.Because of crowded conditions at the county jail, supervisors late Monday authorized the sheriff to bivouac convicted freedom riders at the state penitentiary, sprawling over many acres in the Delta country northwest of Jackson. ,In the Minnesota group were . Claire O’Connor, 22. St. Paul; . Marvin A Davidov. 20; Zev Ael-1, ony, 23, and Eugene J. Uphoff, , 19, all of Minneapolis; Robert M. j Baum, 19. Excelsior, and David , K. Morton, 21, Jackson, Wyo.
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Albert Lea Evening Tribune
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Tue, Jun 13, 1961
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