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Bernard Lafayette is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He participated in the Nashville Student Movement, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma Voting Rights Movement, and was beaten and arrested 27 times.
Bernard Lafayette was a key figure in the civil rights movement, participating in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the Poor People's Campaign. He was a close associate of Martin Luther King and became the program director of SCLC in 1967.
A group of Freedom Riders, including Bernard Lafayette (far right) stand in front of a bus in Birmingham, Alabama on May 19, 1961. Lafayette dropped out of school in order to set an example that student demonstrators would push on despite threats of jail and violence.
Learn about Bernard Lafayette, a civil rights activist who participated in the Nashville Movement, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma campaign. He was a leader of SNCC's Alabama voter registration project and a nonviolent direct action expert.
29 de jul. de 2020 · We revisit civil rights leader and Congressmember John Lewis’s early years of activism with Bernard Lafayette, one of Lewis’s closest friends and collaborators.
Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He Co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.
20 de ene. de 2021 · Bernard Lafayette es un activista de derechos civiles del pueblo afroamericano que se convirtió en uno de los destacados líderes de este movimiento.
