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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.
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 the Southern Christian Leadership ...
Bernard LaFayette Oral History Project, Mss. Gr. 123, University of Rhode Island Special Collections. In 1963, Bernard Lafayette and his new wife, Colia Liddell, went to Selma where he became the official director of SNCC’s Alabama Voter Registration Project.
Minister, 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.
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.
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.
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.
