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

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| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
When he was a boy in the 1940s, Jerome Smith climbed aboard the St. Claude Avenue streetcar in New Orleans and sat down in a section reserved for White riders. Smith was Black, and segregation was the rule. White riders and the White conductor “went crazy,” he said in an interview, and told him he deserved a beating. An elderly Black woman intervened, slapping Smith and dragging him off the streetcar, apologizing to everyone and promising to see that he got the thrashing they had threatened.
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Dr. Herbert Kaufman, who built LSU Eye Center into renowned institution, dies at 94

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| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
Dr. Herbert Edward Kaufman, a researcher, physician and teacher who built the LSU Eye Center in New Orleans into an institution renowned for researching and treating diseases of the eye, died of congestive heart failure on July 11 in Sarasota, Florida, his son Dr. Joshua Kaufman said. He was 94. Kaufman, a native of Brooklyn, New York, was at the eye center from 1978 to 2010. In a career spanning six decades, he was an innovator.
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Joseph Young Jr., who helped save the New Orleans opera, dies at age 96

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| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
Joseph Young Jr., a real estate developer whose unabashed love of opera led him to improve its finances by imposing a business structure on a historically expensive art form, died June 28 at his New Orleans home of complications from a fall, said his niece, Norma Jane McClain. He was 96. Young and his wife, artist Aysen Kural Young, were avid supporters of all the arts, but opera held a special place in their hearts, said James C. “Jay” Gulotta Jr., the New Orleans Opera Association’s president.
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