Samuel Reginald Jordan, Jr.

I was 19 and Samuel was 18 when we first met at Georgetown University in 1964. We worked together with students from all the DC universities on the Filibuster FOR Civil Rights, held at the Washington monument that spring. Our friendship was for life. Samuel was one of the most dedicated activists for human and civil rights I have ever known. He was indefatigable, courageous, and remarkably optimistic-he always believed that "We Shall Overcome." That courage and optimism helped me these past...