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Watts, Joe, 1943-2003

Biography:

Joe Watts, Jr. was an eighteen year old student at Lanier High School in Jackson, Mississippi when he was arrested for his participation in a sit-in at the Trailways bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi on 9 July 1961.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Joe Watts, Jr. following his arrest for his participation in a sit-in at the Trailways bus station in Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 July 9 (Black-and-white photographs)