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Jerome ‘Big Duck’ Smith, longtime New Orleans civil rights activist, dies at 87

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1795+ words) Civil rights activist Jerome Smith speaks about growing up in New Orleans to a Martin Luther King Charter School class on March 18, 2011. At right is sixth grader Lenece Webb. Jerome Smith smiles in 2019. When he was a boy in the…...