American Baptist College 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. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights Movement; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked closely throughout the 1960s movements with groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the American Friends Service Committee.[1]
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Halberstam, David (1998). The Children. Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-41561-9.
BernardLafayette (or LaFayette), Jr. (born July 29, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement...
church in the early morning. In a commemorative Op-Ed piece in 2011, BernardLafayette remembered the mob breaking windows of the church with rocks and setting...
the entire Deep South". In early 1963, SNCC organizers BernardLafayette and Colia Liddel Lafayette arrived in Selma to begin a voter-registration project...
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Anne Braden, Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Hollis Watkins, BernardLafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid- and-late 1950s. Backlash...
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Students from American Baptist College, such as Julius Scruggs, BernardLafayette, James Bevel, William Barbee and John Lewis served on the front line...
theorist of nonviolence, war and morality at the University of Rochester BernardLafayette (b. 1940) – Civil rights organizer, Kingian nonviolence educator James...
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Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
(strategist / colleague) Dorothy Cotton (colleague) Jesse Jackson (protégé) BernardLafayette (colleague) James Lawson (colleague) John Lewis (colleague) Joseph...
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Scott King Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Sr. BernardLafayette James Lawson Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis...
organizing. In 1960, along with James Lawson's and Myles Horton's students BernardLafayette, John Lewis, Diane Nash, C.T. Vivian and others, Bevel participated...
Young moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1961 upon the invitation of BernardLafayette and worked to register black voters. Young played a key role in the...
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia Region served United States Chairman BernardLafayette President/CEO Charles Steele Jr. Affiliations 17 affiliates; 57 chapters...
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