Jemison Special Edition 2013 by Derek Payne

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CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF

T.J. JEMISON PA S TO R • C I V I L R I G H T S L E A D E R • A C T I V I S T

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Celebration Of A Life Well Lived Greeting s to you all,

elcome to a celebration of a life well lived. The Life of Theodore Judson Jemison or T. J. as most of us knew him. He touched many; mine was one of those lives. As a young African-American man living in the South during a time when it was challenging to be here; this man was a trailblazer and a grassroots mover and shaker when it was not of popular theology or political correctness. However, he understood the call that was on his life to make a difference. He was chosen to be a front runner in order that so many like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could go forth and possess the land. This man was the epitome of a leader. He had preaching power, business savvy, and he could politic better than most politicians. He went far and rose high, yet he remained humble without being a push over for anyone. He had a voice, and a vision and he used them both to erect change and evoke the masses. I was inspired and empowered by the man in T. J. Jemison to take a stance, to have a voice, and to help change a generation and

a world in order that those who will come after might have it better. Later on, I too received the call of God on my life and I realized that life is ministry, work is ministry, and everything that we do should be done to the glory of God. For thirty-eight years The Baton Rouge Weekly Press has striven to be a people’s publication, representing the people, our people, all people giving humanity a voice; a place where they can be heard. Today the Baton Rouge Weekly Press seeks to give Dr. Jemison a voice as he speaks to us from the grave. Remember how far we’ve come, but never take for granted that we yet have so much farther to go. Remain free and continue to keep on making a difference in this city, state, country and in the world. Today we celebrate a life well lived; A life that has impacted many and will continue for generations to come. To the family and many loved ones and friends of Dr. Jemison we say our thoughts and prayers are forever with you, but we know that Dr. Jemison would say, don’t cry for me. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith and now I have finished my course… the rest is up to you. Well done Dr. T.J. Jemison. The Baton Rouge Weekly Press and all of the people who knew and loved you salute you. Thank you for passing this way.

Bishop Ivory J. Payne, Publisher of the Baton Rouge Weekly Press

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n Bishop Charles E. Wallace Oasis Christian Church

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n Pastor Perry Wright Jr. Promise Land Baptist Church

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Mayor Melvin “Kip” L. Holden Speaks on the Life and Legacy of Dr. Theodore Judson “T.J.” Jemison The man who changed the course of the city of Baton Rouge and ultimately the world… By Mydra L. Kelly, The Baton Rouge Weekly Press There is a place where people meet where there is no divide; a place where there is no need for bridges and no room for gaps; it’s just perfect cohesiveness. That place is called “spirit”. That is the place where I met the Mayor of Baton Rouge, Melvin “Kip” L. Holden as I interviewed him for this occasion. That is also the place where he met Rev. Dr. T. J. Jemison I believe. As we began to speak, it felt like something intruded on our conversation; it was the “spirit”. It was almost as if Dr. Jemison was speaking as Mayor Holden spoke to me. He was riveting and emotional, but with such poise and revelation. As I spoke to Mayor Holden, he immediately began to bring me a message. The message was delivered with so much enthusiasm and zeal, that I could barely keep up with him in my dictation. The words flowed so freely from his mouth that it seemed like water that was overflowing from a ravine that was full and needing to be emptied. And thus he began to release… “I want you to know that this is a monumental young lady, he said”. I have been going through this all week since I got the news of Dr. Jemison’s passing; not only the thoughts and feelings of what it means to have lost this man, but more importantly, what it meant to have had this guy in our city in the first place. “This is so heavy”, the mayor said. I could tell also, that it was from a heavy heart that he spoke to me. He spoke from a place of genuine compassion, and most of all, humility. Dr. Jemison saw first- hand the inequalities of life during his time here in the south, in Alabama and in Louisiana. He was thrust into it, the mayor said. He realized immediately that if there was going to ever be peace, a plan was needed to be put into place in order not just have peace for a season, but forever. This plan was what would become the first Bus Boycott of Baton Rouge. It was the Blueprint that set the course that would change all of our lives forever. “Not just anyone could have done this, Mayor Holden said, but the uniqueness of Dr. Jemison, set him up for the challenge”. Dr. Jemison was a special man; he was peculiar; unique. He observed the worries all around him and the impact that they were having in the community. The Blacks were being mistreated on one side, and the Whites were in distress on the other. Rev. Jemison became the middleman; I guess you could call him the “rock”, Holden said. I envisioned the scripture where God proclaimed to Peter and said upon this “rock” I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Dr. Jemison was the “rock’’ that the mayor was referring to. “Dr. Jemison knew that he had to find a way to get the people to rally together to attack the ills in society during that

time in order to avoid turmoil”. He felt the sting of it personally being a Black man living in the 1950’s, but there were others who felt it too. ” White families that rallied for what was right amidst persecution like the Ben Taylor family; only to have crosses burned in their yard as a result of simply doing the right thing, Mayor Holden said with conviction. He compared Dr. Jemison to David in the twenty-third Psalms by saying “He feared no evil.” Holden went on to say, Dr. Jemison became that Rock for Baton Rouge, but he never negated to understand, nor fail to let the people know; that their true guidance came from the “Rock of ages”. The Mayor paused for a brief moment, but not long enough to halt his flow of revelation, and he said, “You know it kind of reminds me of Good Friday when Christ was on the cross”. He was our sacrifice so that we could all be saved eternally and forever. That’s what Dr. Jemison was to us during those times”. Like Jesus, he was the rock inside of the rock inside of the rock that stood firm and kept us covered, protected and hidden, yet he himself took a lot of blows for the people of this city and Black people around the globe. Nonetheless, he remained faithful and he fought tirelessly saying like Job in verse 13:15, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. The Mayor said Dr. Jemison knew that no matter how many times he might get knocked down, he’d have the strength in the Christ he served, to get back up again. Holden said that just as Jesus chose his disciples to help fulfill his work here on earth, that Rev. Jemison had chosen his own disciples to walk with him in order to make the world a better place for us all, Dr. Jemison’s obedience and courage started a revolution because when a young preacher by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. had heard about what Jemison was doing down here in Baton Rouge; he came to speak with him. From their meeting Dr. King was empowered, he obtained, wisdom, and as we know from here the rest is history. Dr. King was then catapulted into the civil rights movement and the Montgomery boycott, was modeled after Dr. Jemison’s free ride bus boycott, which took place right here in our great city of Baton Rouge. Dr. Jemison helped to raise up this young preacher who traveled from his homeland of Alabama and the world has never been the same since. Mayor Holden is reaching his climax in this Sermon on the Mount that he was giving to me now, almost akin to Dr. King’s famous “I have a dream” speech, except it was being given to an audience of one. However, as I reflect on this, it really wasn’t because I was simply the catalyst by which it would travel to the masses. See MAYOR HOLDEN, Page 5

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THEODORE JUDSON JEMISON (August 1, 1918 – November 15, 2013)

THE MAN • Theodore Judson Jemison Sr. “aka” T. J. • Married to Celestine Carlett - Jemison • Father to Betty Jane Jemison -Wagner, Diane Jemison Pollard, Theodore “Ted” Judson Jemison Jr. • Alabama State graduate • Virginia Union University Seminary • New York State university graduate • Attended Morehouse College • Member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity HIS MINISTRY • Son of a Baptist preacher and deep Christian heritage • First started at Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, Station, VA • Succeeded Gordon Taylor as pastor of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, La.

heodore Judson Jemison, better known as T. J. Jemison, was the president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. from 1982 to 1994. It is the largest African-American religious organization. He oversaw the construction of the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the headquarters for the Convention. In 1953, while minister of a large church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jemison helped lead the first civil rights boycott of segregated seating in public bus service. The organization of free rides, coordinated by churches, was a model used later by the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, which started in 1955. Jemison was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. In 2003, the 50th anniversary of the Baton Rouge bus boycott was honored with three days of events in the city. These were organized by a young resident born two decades after the action. T. J. Jemison was born in 1918 in Selma, Alabama where his father, the Rev. David V. Jemison, pastored the Tabernacle Baptist Church. He came from a family of prominent ministers and strong churchgoing women. He attended local public schools, which were segregated, as were all public facilities in Alabama in those years. Jemison earned a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State University, a historically black college, where he joined Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He earned a divinity degree at Virginia Union University to prepare for the ministry, and later did graduate study at New York University. Jemison was first called as a minister by Mt. Zion First 4

• Former Secretary and President of the National Baptist Convention, Inc. • Former Vice President of the Baptist World Alliance HIS MISSION To assure that all men and women are treated equal here on earth; to make Baton Rouge a model city of equality and Justice. HIS MESSAGE “Take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there! THE MEANING OF IT ALL… We have yet to see what the meaning of it all is because the legacy continues in all the lives that Dr. Jemison has touched who yet live. When one man shares himself with so many; he really never dies until the last life that

Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1949. There he worked chiefly on internal church matters, overseeing construction and continued fundraising of a new church building. At the time, his father was serving as President of the National Baptist Convention, the association of AfricanAmerican Baptist churches established in 1895. Within a few years, Jemison became involved in an early civil rights action. In 1950, the city had ended blackowned buses, requiring all residents to use its monopoly system, which enforced segregated seating. (In the part on North Baton the community of Scotlandville had it own bus system.) It was racially segregated by law; in practice, black citizens had to sit at the back half of the bus or stand, even if seats in the front “white” section were empty. Jemison said later he was struck by “watching buses pass by his church and seeing black people standing in the aisles, not allowed by law to sit down in seats reserved for whites. ‘I thought that was just out of order, that was just cruel’.” Making up 80% of the passengers on the system, African Americans were fed up with standing on buses while “white” seats remained empty, particularly after the company had raised fares by 50% from ten to fifteen cents in January 1953. Rev. Jemison took up the issue with the Baton Rouge City Council; he testified on February 11, 1953 against the fare increase and asked for an end of the practice of reserving so many seats for whites. The City Council met that demand, without abolishing segregation per se. They passed Ordinance 222, which established a first come-first served system: it allowed black passengers to board the bus

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he impacted is gone. This man, Theodore Judson Jemison touched many, many lives and his flame will continue to remain lit for years to come, perhaps to infinity for each of those lives will impact another. Therefore, Dr. Jemison will live forever… TRAIL BLAZER – THE FIRST AT MANY THINGS • 1945 First minister to conduct an interracial service in Stanton, VA. • Organized the first NAACP chapter in Stanton, Va. • Organized First Boys & Girls Group In Stanton, Va. • Founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference • First General Secretary of the Nation Baptist Convention, Inc. • Orchestrated the construction of the first National Baptist World Center, Nashville, Tenn.

from the back and take any empty seats available, while white passengers boarded from the front. The bus companies’ white drivers largely ignored the ordinance and continued to pressure blacks to the back. When bus drivers harassed black passengers’ seeking to enforce the ordinance, Jemison tested the law on June 13, 1953 by sitting in a front seat of a bus. The next day the bus company suspended two bus drivers for not complying with the ordinance. The drivers’ union responded by striking for four days. That strike ended on June 18, 1953 when Louisiana Attorney General Fred S. LeBlanc declared the city’s ordinance unconstitutional on the ground that it violated the state’s segregation laws. Rev. Jemison set up a free-ride network, coordinated by the churches, to compensate for the lack of public transit. This was its signature action for the boycott, adopted for later ones. “While the Baton Rouge boycott lasted only two weeks, it set protest standards, and is growing in recognition as a precedent-setting event in the history of the modern American civil rights movement.” The organizers of the later Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955 used the model of the free-ride system when they began what became a year-long boycott in that city. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, Jemison’s “painstaking description of the Baton Rouge experience proved invaluable.” With most of the black bus riders refusing to ride, by the third day the buses were almost entirely empty. The boySee JEMISON, Page 5

James Terry III, Photographer

James Terry III, Photographer Kweisi Mfume Former NAACP President & Dr. Jemison Former Governor Dave Treen and Rev. T. J. Jemison

Mayor Holden from page 3 Mayor Holden said, “Jemison knew in his heart that he had to stand and bear the weight of the burden placed upon his shoulders, and not run”. It would not be an easy feat, but he had to do it, even if it meant death”. There was a great mission in front of him like the red sea before the children of Israel; seemingly water everywhere and no way to get across, but God. Mayor Holden now took on the role of a Baptist preacher about to wrap up his sermon because now he was getting to the best part. He said; do you remember when the spies went out to survey the Promised Land after they had wandered in the wilderness for forty years? I knew the story well, being a product of the Baptist church so I responded, “Yes sir I do.” Then the mayor said, There were three reports; the first group said there are giants in the land we must stay here and not go any further, and another group said we can’t even stay we need to just turn around and go back into slavery, but the third group said, we can take on these giants and possess the land! This is what Dr. Jemison said, we can take on these giants and possess the land, and despite all of the roadblocks he

forged our people forward and did just that. He removed some of the roadblocks, others he went around, and some he just knocked down. Because of his faith and tenacity, and his ability to understand that God had not given his the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind, he spoke to the mountains of hatred, racism, inequality and degradation and the walls came down. The Mayor was on his sermonic wrapup now and he closed by saying to you the people of Baton Rouge and all that will witness this historical event; the way that we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Jemison is simply to remember…though they slay us we will rise, we have risen, and we will yet rise again. Rise up Baton Rouge and remember what Dr. Jemison has done, and because of this we can do even greater. I wondered if I had just had a conversation with the mayor when we were finished or if I was interviewing a preacher. Perhaps they are one in the same. I’m not sure about that, but I am sure of this one thing; the spirit was amongst us, and perhaps he gave us the opportunity to embrace the essence of Dr. Jemison between us. There is no space in the spirit, no divide, no need to bridge the gaps. All we must do is simply “be”.

Submitted by Todd Sterling

cott lasted eight days, as Rev. Jemison called it off after successful negotiations between black leaders and the city council. The following day, the city council passed an ordinance under which the first-come, firstserved, seating system of back-to-front and front-to-back was reinstated. In addition, they set aside the first two seats on any bus for white passengers and the back bench for black passengers, while allowing anyone to sit on any of the rows in the middle. To comply with state segregation laws, blacks and whites were prohibited from sitting next to each other within this arrangement.

While a number of boycotters wanted to continue the action to attack segregation directly, the majority approved the compromise. Jemison was elected as president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., the largest black religious organization, in 1982 and served until 1994. His best-known achievement of his tenure as President of the National Baptist Convention was the construction of the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a headquarters for the Convention. He publicly opposed the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court and the Gulf War.

Forme President Bill CLinton, Hillary Clinton, Celetine Jemison & Dr. Theodore Judson Jemison

Submitted by Todd Sterling

Jemison from page 4

The young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Rev. Dr. T. J. Jemison

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CHRONOLOGY

Honoring A Trailblazer and A Man of All Times!

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord…Psalms 37:23 From Selma Alabama to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; from the mourners bench to the pulpit; from Mt Zion First Baptist in Staton Virginia to Mt Zion First Baptist in Baton Rouge; From Civil Rights to Human Service; from Pastoring to the presidency; from Earth to glory...

y life has been sharpened because Dr. T. J. Jemison passed this way. I honor you my colleague, my mentor, my friend. You will forever be with us in our hearts and in our memory. Rev. Jesse Billberry and the Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church.

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Ordination and Installtion Service of Rev. Jesse Billberry. February 19, 1984

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must often soar alone, but now you will be in good company my friend...

1923 – 1949 • Born on August 1, 1918 in Selma, Alabama • He attended local public schools, which were segregated, as were all public facilities in Alabama during his time. • He earned a BS from Alabama State University and received a Doctorate of Divinity from Virginia Union University to prepare for the ministry, and later did graduate study at New York University. • He joined Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity • He met and married Celestine Catlett in 1945 • His first church was Mt. Zion First Baptist in Stanton, Virginia. • He was first called as a minister by Mt. Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1949 1950 – 1957 • Became involved in an early civil rights action; In 1950, the city had ended black-owned buses, requiring all residents to use its monopoly system, which enforced segregated seating. (In the part on North Baton the community of Scotlandville had its own bus system.) • Raised fares by 50% from ten to fifteen cents in January 1953. • He testified on February 11, 1953 against the fare increase and asked for an end of the practice of reserving so many seats for whites • They passed Ordinance 222, which established a first come-first served system: • Jemison tested the law on June 13, 1953 by sitting in a front seat of a bus. • That strike ended on June 18, 1953 when Louisiana Attorney General Fred S. LeBlanc declared the city’s ordinance unconstitutional on the ground that it violated the state’s segregation laws. • Organizers of the later Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955 used the model of the free-ride system when they began what became a year-long boycott in that city. • In 1953, while minister of a large church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jemison helped lead the first civil rights boycott of segregated seating in public bus service • Free Bus Boycott model used later by the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, which started in 1955 • Jemison was one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. • The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, Jemison’s “painstaking description of the Baton Rouge experience proved invaluable.” • Jemison was elected as president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., the largest black religious organization, in 1982 and served until 1994

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NEW BIRTH

WE REMEMBER T.J. JEMISON OMARI ANDREWS Omari said, “So you want to talk about Jem?” as he referred to this historical icon that most only knew as a name from a distance yet he candidly spoke as though he was his best pal. “Sure I can tell you about him; I loved him he was a good man, a great man, many days I’d walk in on him and he’d be on the phone with the likes of George Bush, Jessie Jackson or Mike Tyson, but he always had time to talk to me. I’ve read his books, studied his life and he was smart, he was my neighbor and my friend… REV. JESSE BILLBERRY I could never begin to tell you what this meant to me… that’s what a distinguished now mature Rev. Billberry said as he proudly showed me the picture of his, leader, his teacher, his mentor and his friend. “He presented my ordination papers to me, he said with such excitement; “He was the president of the National Baptist Convention and he was shaking my hand and preaching for my services. That was special…it meant more than you can ever know. Dr. Jemison was a great man, and I was blessed to know him. He was our leader, but we had a good relationship. He was my friend… THOMAS DELPIT Dr. Jemison was the first person to take me into the Governor’s office and introduce me to him. He helped to jump start my political career. He was a great man. I remember once when the new buses came out after the boycott. I got on one of the first buses with Dr. Jemi-

son and then Baton Rouge mayor Woody Dumas. Dumas looked at Dr. Jemison and I as he walked pass us to the rear of the bus, and I remember him saying, “I’m going to go to the back…today you guys sit in the front.” It was a historical moment and I shared it with Dr. Jemison…my friend YVONNE DORSEY Yvonne Dorsey, United Sates senator. A beautiful, bright woman making a difference in our political world, yet she was just a little girl basking in the honor of a man she looked to with such honor when she told a local television news reporter, “He was like a father to me, I never had a father. He filled that void for me. Now it feels like my father has died…” W. T. WINNFIELD I have this picture of Dr. Jemison and I from the boycott times. It’s something that needs to be seen, be remembered. Dr. Jemison made a difference in my life and I want to make sure people know the difference he’s made, and not forget it says W. T. Winnfield He made a difference. He was my friend… AGNES ANDEWS Agnes Andrews prominent business woman said,” Dr. Jemison is gone, but he shouldn’t be forgotten. We need to make sure that doesn’t happen. He was a good man and he made a difference in our community and in this country. I lived on the same street. We must keep his legacy alive. He was a good man and my son loved him.” He was

my neighbor; He was my friend MYDRA L. KELLY I saw Dr. Jemison in a local grocery store once as a teenager and I was mesmerized to be in the same place as greatness. He noticed me staring unconsciously and he simply caught my eyes and smiled. I said hello Rev. Jemison and he said warmly in that big voice, Hello, and how are you today; then we both walked away… TODD STERLING Some of my fondest memories of Rev. Jemison are of the barrel candies he used to have on his desk when I was a kid. He also used to always introduce you enthusiastically out in the community, as “One of my best members!”… Lastly, I remember him singing It Pays to Serve Jesus in his booming voice; it had to be one of his favorite songs.” Hearing him sing it made it one of mine says, Todd Sterling PASTOR IVORY D. PAYNE I remember once as a young man being at Pastor Jemison’s church and watching how all of the preachers young and old migrated to him. He had a way of making you feel comfortable, and even though he was in the midst of entertaining all of his big time important preacher friends; I remember him taking the time to notice that I was there and he asked me if there was anything that I needed. He made me feel that I was just as important as they all were even though at the time I was just a young man trying to find my way in the church…

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