Jerome H. Smith

Released
Full name:Jerome Smith
Date of birth:1939
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 23 Days
Support
Civil Rights
Jerome H. Smith

Biography

Jerome H. Smith was a twenty-two-year-old CORE organizer and former Southern University student from New Orleans, arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 25, 1961 as a Freedom Rider. His birth year, about 1939, is derived from his reported age at arrest. Sovereignty Commission material sometimes mislabels him Jerome M. Smith. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds his named arrest photograph but does not establish his disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.

Cases

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival in Jackson, May 25, 1961.
Arrested: May 25, 1961
Incarcerated: May 25, 1961
Released: May 27, 1961
Charges: Obstructing traffic while picketing segregated Canal Street stores in New Orleans
Arrested: Apr 17, 1961
Incarcerated: Apr 17, 1961
Sentence: Refused bail and remained jailed after the April 17, 1961 picketing arrest. Exact release date unverified. Smith subsequently testified that he served thirty days for the April picketing.
Arrested: December 1961
Incarcerated: December 1961
Sentence: CORE records identify his jailing during the December 1961 Baton Rouge demonstrations. Exact admission and release days remain unverified. Smith testified that he served twenty-one days.

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