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Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette), Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
Lafayette, Bernard. July 19, 1940. A student activist in the Nashville, Tennessee, sit-in campaign of 1960, and a longtime staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bernard Lafayette gained a reputation as a steadfast proponent of nonviolence before Martin Luther King offered him the position of program director of ...
He has developed curricula in nonviolence and remains active in the movement for human freedom around the world. Read More. Gathering to Board. A group of Freedom Riders, including Bernard Lafayette (far right) stand in front of a bus in Birmingham, Alabama on May 19, 1961.
July 29, 1940 –. Raised in Tampa, Florida. “I’ll take Selma,” Bernard Lafayette told Jim Forman on the phone. As one of the young activists emerging from the nonviolent Nashville Movement and the 1961 Freedom Rides, Lafayette had come to understand that “it [was] not something you read that causes you to change ….
29 de jul. de 2020 · Guests. Bernard Lafayette. civil rights leader, scholar and longtime friend and former roommate of the late Congressmember John Lewis, as well as a professor at Auburn University in Alabama....
20 de ene. de 2021 · Emisión del programa Afroamérica titulado Bernard Lafayette. Todos los contenidos de RNE los tienes aquí, en RTVE Play
Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette ), Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
