Daily News | Matthew H. Smith, Philadelphia NAN president and retired social worker, dies at 79
Matthew H. Smith, 79, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Action Network and a retired social worker who was inspired to a life in activism after attending the 1963 March on Washington, died Sunday, March 27, 2022.Matthew H.
“Nothing slowed him down,” she said. “He would go all over the state of Pennsylvania, wherever we were called to answer some injustice or discrimination.”Matthew Henson Smith was born Jan 4, 1943, in Swansea, S.C., to Johnny Williams and Earline Smith Zeigler. “Mom was so proud of him,” Mattos said. “She knew he was really smart. She saw something different in him.”
In 1963, when he was 20, Mr. Smith went to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and listened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other speakers.
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