Jefferson Poland became a student at Florida State University and majored in sociology.
16 Facts About Jefferson Poland
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Jefferson Poland was expelled from that university in 1960 for his integrationist work with the Congress for Racial Equality.
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Jefferson Poland participated with the Freedom Riders in Florida and in June 1961 was one of the "Tallahassee Ten" who were arrested for unlawful assembly at a segregated airport restaurant.
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Jefferson Poland worked with CORE to register black voters in Louisiana in the summer of 1963.
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Jefferson Poland participated in one of the first known LGBT rights demonstrations in the United States.
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Jefferson Poland then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and focused his organizing efforts near the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University.
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Jefferson Poland founded various chapters, including ones in the East Bay, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Diego.
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Jefferson Poland was a graduate student at San Francisco State University.
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In 1968, Jefferson Poland signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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Jefferson Poland was a subject and contributor to the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb.
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Jefferson Poland, after attempting to attend the Berkeley City Council meeting of September 22,1970, was arrested and later convicted of disturbing the peace and interfering with a police officer in the line of duty.
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Jefferson Poland served 90 days at Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center near Dublin.
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Jefferson Poland turned over his archives to the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, where they are now available for public viewing by academic researchers.
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In 1983, Jefferson Poland was charged with molesting the 8- or 9-year-old daughter of an acquaintance whom he babysat.
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Jefferson Poland fled the country and he lived for five years as a fugitive in India, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Jefferson Poland died on November 17,2017, at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.