HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A cultural center in Mississippi has hosted a jazz brunch to honor a late civil rights leader.
The Hattiesburg Cultural Center hosted the event Wednesday in honor of Jeanette Smith, a prominent leader in the city’s civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, WDAM-TV reported. She was 78 years old when she died in Atlanta in 2018.
Her late husband, Dr. C.E. Smith, also was instrumental in Hattiesburg’s civil rights movement. Both of them served as the president of the Forrest County NAACP, which they joined in 1959.
The center plans on hosting the brunch again next year to honor those that have made a difference for the civil rights organization, according to the station.
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