Biography
Jerome H. Smith was a twenty-two-year-old CORE organizer and former Southern University student from New Orleans, arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on May 25, 1961 as a Freedom Rider. His birth year, about 1939, is derived from his reported age at arrest. Sovereignty Commission material sometimes mislabels him Jerome M. Smith. The Civil Rights Digital Library holds his named arrest photograph but does not establish his disposition or release, so those fields are unresolved.
