'''Joseph L. "Zastrow" Simms''' (May 1940 {{ndash}} April 2013)<ref name="mlkaward">{{cite news |last1=Peniston |first1=Bradley |title=Simms to get King award |work=The Capital |date=January 6, 1997 |page=13}}</ref> was an American civil rights activist in Annapolis, Maryland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-xpm-2013-04-16-bs-md-ar-zastrow-simms-20130416-story.html|title=Joseph 'Zastrow' Simms, Annapolis and civil rights activist, dies|last=Burris|first=Joe|date=April 16, 2013|website=Baltimore Sun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406220632/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-xpm-2013-04-16-bs-md-ar-zastrow-simms-20130416-story.html|archive-date=April 6, 2019|access-date=April 5, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> His life was the subject of a 2006 documentary entitled "''Pip & Zastrow.''"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pipandzastrow.com/index.htm|title=Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship|last=|first=|date=|website=Urcunina Films|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref>
== Awards == In January 1997, Simms received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award.<ref name="mlkaward"/>
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