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: A Georgia chain-gang term; the CRC fought his extradition. Verdict as recorded: Convicted in Georgia; fought extradition from New Jersey. Charges as recorded: Theft (seed peas) — a Georgia chain-gang sentence his white co-defendants escaped.
Convicted: Yes

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