Samuel Brown (New York relief, 1932)

Samuel Brown was a Black New York worker whom the Daily Worker of October 21, 1932, page 2, says was jailed for six months for demanding unemployment relief. A demonstration protesting his imprisonment on October 15 led to 22 arrests. The paper reports that Judge Farrell convicted 21 of those protesters on October 19, with 11 due for sentencing on October 21 and ten the following day; the twenty-second defendant was not convicted because his testimony disrupted the police account. Those are separate protesters, not additional convictions of Brown. Brown's own exact charge, court, sentencing date, custody endpoints and actual time served are not supplied. No identity connection is established with the existing Sam Brown imprisoned on different Harlem charges in 1931, or with the later Brink's case defendant Samuel Brown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n252-NY-oct-21-1932-DW-LOC.pdf