Baton Rouge played its part." 2007, Mt. Zion First Baptist Church established the annual T. J. Jemison Race Relations Award in his honor. It was first awarded that year to Jesse Bankston, a long-term Democratic politician in Baton Rouge. Death Jemison died in Baton Rouge at the age of ninety-five. On March 11, 2017, Jemison was among five persons inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield. He was cited posthumously for his pioneering work in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and his pastorate of the Mount Zion First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge. References External links Commemorative history of the Baton Rouge bus boycott, Louisiana State University Jemison in front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Image of Theodore J. Jemison speaking before the National Baptist Convention in Los Angeles, California, 1983. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1918 births 2013 deaths Activists for African-American civil rights African-American Baptist ministers Alabama State University alumni Virginia Union University alumni New York University alumni Clergy of historically African-American Christian denominations National Baptist Convention, USA ministers African-American activists Activists from Selma, Alabama People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Louisiana Democrats Baptists from Louisiana Baptists from Alabama 21st-century African-American people