photo of Suffolk County CORE chairman Henry G. Smith

photo of Suffolk County CORE chairman Henry G. Smith

Suffolk County CORE members

This is a 1966 photo of Suffolk County CORE chairman Henry G. Smith (Black). He is talking with Suffolk District Court Judge Floyd Sarisohn (White). The two tried to create an experimental program to help ‘indigent defendants who are jailed because they can’t afford bail’. The judge stated in the press that starting the next day he would ‘release indigent Negro and Puerto Rican defendants without bail if CORE’ guaranteed they would return to court. Instead, he was ordered off the bench by his superior in a move seen as unprecedented in LI history.

Newsday, 7/8/1966

Newsday

Newsday

7/8/1966

Long Island, 1966