NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act ...
Bernard LaFayette Jr., a civil rights organizer who helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, and later became a strategist in the Southern voting ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As part of a work detail, student leader Bernard Lafayette, along with fellow demonstrators, shoveled snow on the Public Square on ...
Bernard LaFayette, voting rights organizer and former director of URI nonviolence center, dies at 85
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the former director of URI’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies who did the risky groundwork for the Selma, Alabama, voter registration campaign that ...
The man who pushed for voter rights has died. Bernard LaFayette was 85 years old. His son, Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died on March 5 of a heart attack, according to The Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, T.N. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of ...
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