Miss. Negro Freed on Charge of Owning Two Cans of Beer

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November 13, 1964

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Miss. Negro (Clyde Harvey) Freed on Bail in 2-Beer Can Case

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Press Releases, Volume 1. Miss. Negro Freed on Charge of Owning Two Cans of Beer, 1964. 688f7d6c-b592-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/736c047a-e9ac-4ec6-8da6-d0d68750e1c5/miss-negro-freed-on-charge-of-owning-two-cans-of-beer. Accessed November 02, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational F' said 
PRESS RELEASE 
President 

r. Allan Knight Chalmers 
Director-Counsel 

Jack Greenberg 

‘ © Constaree Baker Motley SO eneNee Friday 
November 13, 1964 

MISS, NEGRO FREED ON CHARGE 
OF OWNING TWO CANS OF BEER * 

NEW YORK---Jack Greenberg, director counsel of the NAACP Legal 

Defense Fund today announced that Clyde Harvey, Mississippi Civil 

Rights supporter, has been freed. from jail, 

Mr. Harvey had served two months of a 90-day term for 

possession of two cans of beer. Mississippi is a "dry" state, 

Pending decision of the case, Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle 

of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ordered 

Mr. Harvey's release on bail. Federal District Judge Sidney Mize 

had denied Legal Defense Fund motions on Mr. Harvey's behalf on 

October 14, 

Mr. Harvey, an illiterate farmer and father of 6, was 

arrested on July 10, released on bond, and told by a local judge 

he would be informed of further proceedings. Then on September 9, 

he was re-arrested and told he had been convicted on July 23 and 

sentenced to pay a ——" and to serve 90 days in jail. 

By that time, the 40 day period in which he might have 

appealed had run out. 

-30- 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public Information—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487

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