Biography
The Rev. Theodore Franklin Clark was an Atlanta civil-rights activist who joined descendants of Harris Neck, Georgia, in a campaign to reclaim land taken by the federal government during World War II. Federal marshals arrested Clark, Edgar Timmons Jr., Christopher McIntosh Jr. and Hercules Anderson at the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge on May 2, 1979. After a two-hour trial on May 4, the court convicted them of criminal contempt and ordered thirty days of confinement. The men spent more than fifteen days in the Savannah jail before their confinement was suspended pending appeal. The Fifth Circuit affirmed the convictions in November 1979; the exact release day and whether any remaining portion was later served have not been established.
