Alonzo Smith, a venerable social justice activist who participated in a mobilizing call with the Poor People’s Campaign, and whose mother “passed” for white, allowing her to buy a family home in D.C., has died at the age of 79.

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Alonzo Smith, a venerable social justice activist who participated in a mobilizing call with the Poor People’s Campaign, and whose mother “passed” for white, allowing her to buy a family home in D.C., has died at the age of 79.
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