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Bernard Lafayette Jr., Tampa, FL. Twenty-year-old Bernard Lafayette hailed from Tampa, FL and was enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary.
I AM A MAN Award Recipient 2016. Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. A Civil Rights Movement hero and nonviolence activist for over fifty years, Dr. LaFayette was a co-founder and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Nashville Sit-ins, a courageous Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and national coordinator of the Poor People ...
The URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies was first directed in 1998 by Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. A Civil Rights Movement hero and nonviolence activist for nearly fifty years, Dr. LaFayette was a co-founder and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Nashville sit-ins, a courageous Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. King in […]
Bernard Lafayette is one of the founding fathers of the Voting Rights Act. He was part of a small interracial army of men and women who presented their bodies as living sacrifices for the Act. Some lost their friends, their families, their minds -- even their lives. But 50 years after their greatest triumph, their struggle is in danger of being lost.
The Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr., an ordained minister, is a longtime civil rights activist, organizer, and an authority on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, and he was a core ...
BERNARD LAFAYETTE, JR. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. is an American Civil Rights Activist. He was born July 29, 1940, and raised in Tampa, Florida. He attended college at the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee where he helped to lead the sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and restaurants and was involved in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
29 de jul. de 2020 · BERNARD LAFAYETTE: Well, that was one of the genius of John Lewis, is that he knew how to relate to people who were different from him and who had different orientations, different values ...
