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A Hometown Hero Standing Tall: Celebrating the Legacy of General J. Gary Cooper

by Admin January 31, 2022 1,767

Jerome Gary Cooper was born in a devout Catholic family on October 2, 1936, in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in the 1950s in the “Down the Bay” community of Mobile, AL, a segregated urban area in the South. Cooper says, “The streets were dirt and such, but we had a movie theatre called the […]