PHILADELPHIA — Former Philadelphia NAACP president J. Whyatt “Jerry” Mondesire, a longtime civil rights activist, editor and publisher, has died. He was 65.
Mondesire’s family said in a statement he died Sunday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Philly.com reports that Mondesire was having dialysis at a local hospital Friday when he suffered a brain aneurysm, and he was transferred to Jefferson and placed on a ventilator.
Mondesire, longtime president of Philadelphia’s NAACP chapter until last year and publisher of the Philadelphia Sunday Sun, was a former reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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