1130 Canal Street

ID: 6010 ~ Creator: Terri R. Rushing, photographer ~ Date: 2020
This file appears in: Doratha "Dodie" Smith-Simmons

The site of arrest of Doratha "Dodie" Simmons on March 1964,
1130 Canal Street. New Orleans, LA.

This file appears in: Doratha "Dodie" Smith-Simmons

By Terri Rushing
As a teen, Doratha “Dodie” Smith-Simmons entered the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans, following in the footsteps of her older sister, Dorothy Smith Venison. Simmons’ activism began as a means to…