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Harvard Graduate School of Education. Known for. Activism in the Civil Rights Movement. Parent (s) Bernard Lafayette Sr. Verdell Lafayette. 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.
Bernard Lafayette was a student activist and staff member of SNCC who became the program director of SCLC in 1967. He was a proponent of nonviolence and a participant in the Freedom Rides, the Poor People's Campaign, and the Chicago Campaign. He later became a pastor, a scholar, and a leader of his alma mater.
Bernard LafayetteMinister, Optimist, Activist Selma, Alabama. In his youth he challenged segregated facilities through nonviolent direct action, was a Freedom Rider, and worked with SCLC in voter registration. He suffered violence, incarceration, and death threats for taking a stand against racial injustice.
Bernard Lafayette was a young activist from the nonviolent Nashville Movement and the 1961 Freedom Rides who became the official director of SNCC's Alabama voter registration project in 1963. He was beaten in Selma, Alabama, and later joined SCLC and became a leading authority on nonviolent social change and direct action.
20 de ene. de 2021 · Emisión del programa Afroamérica titulado Bernard Lafayette. Todos los contenidos de RNE los tienes aquí, en RTVE Play
29 de jul. de 2020 · Civil rights leader and scholar Bernard Lafayette shares his memories of his friend and colleague John Lewis, who participated in the first Freedom Rides of 1961 to challenge segregation on buses. He also discusses the strategy, violence and impact of the Freedom Rides movement.
9 de ago. de 2017 · The Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr., 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 was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960 and in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.