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Sam Jordan

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1950s
State:Georgia
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Biography

Sam Jordan was a young Black man facing extradition from Bayonne, New Jersey to a Georgia chain gang over the theft of seed peas — a charge for which his white co-defendants had gone free. The Civil Rights Congress fought to block his return south.

Case

Charges: Theft (seed peas).
Sentence: Chain-gang term
Convicted: Yes