Rudy lombard biography

22nd December 2014   ·   0 Comments

By C.C.

Campbell-Rock
Contributing Writer

“Rudy was a doer,” Don Hubbard says matter of factly. “Rudy was a doer; Oretha Castle was a doer…she wasn’t Oretha Castle Haley, then. They started the local CORE chapter,” he adds.

Hubbard was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) along with Jerome Smith, Matthew Suarez, Doretha Smith-Simmons, Dave Dennis, Cecil Carter, George Raymond, and a host of other 20-somethings ready to sacrifice their lives to stop segregation and racial inequality.

The occasion for his words was both somber and inspiring. Hubbard’s fellow CORE alumnus had “gone to be with the ancestors,” as civil rights attorney Ernest Jones said in an email.

Rudy lombard biography

Dr. Rudolph Joseph Lombard 75, passed away Saturday, December 13, at high noon. Born during the Jim Crow era, the New Orleans native grew up in Algiers.