Sam-Joe Townsend

AKA: Sam-Jo Townsend
Released
Date of birth:c. 1933
Date of death:c. 1971
Age:38† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
Support
Civil Rights
Sam-Joe Townsend

Biography

Sam-Joe Townsend was a UCLA graduate student, born about 1933 and joined the July 30, 1961 Illinois Central train ride from New Orleans and was arrested in Jackson — one of the arrests recorded by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and preserved in the Civil Rights Digital Library. The catalog establishes the arrest, the participation, and the individually identified police photograph, but not the court disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the physical release date; those fields are unresolved pending county-jail, court, or penitentiary records.

He died in 1971. The mugshot reads Sam-Jo, but the catalog explains Sam-Joe is the authoritative form.

Case

Charges: Breach of the peace — Freedom Ride arrival at the Jackson Illinois Central terminal, July 30, 1961.
Arrested: Jul 30, 1961
Sentence: Arrested 1961-07-30. The Civil Rights Digital Library establishes the arrest and the identification photograph but not the disposition, any transfer to Parchman, or the release date — unresolved pending court, jail, or penitentiary records.
Convicted: Unresolved — the arrest is documented; the disposition is not established in the CRDL record

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