US EditionBernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died
LaFayette’s voter registration work in Selma helped lead to the 1965 Voting Rights Act and impacted hundreds of thousands, SCLC said.
- Bernard LaFayette, civil rights organizer, died Thursday morning of a heart attack, his son Bernard LaFayette, III, said.
- As director of the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign, Bernard LaFayette led advance work in Selma long ago that helped set the stage for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- He was beaten outside his home, a neighbor with a rifle was called, and LaFayette later asked him not to shoot, surviving an assassination attempt on the night Medgar Evers was murdered.
- DeMark Liggins, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said LaFayette's legacy lives in thousands he helped, with Chicago organizing credited for tenant protections and health efforts.
- LaFayette also coordinated national campaigns and served in university leadership roles, including director of Peace and Justice in Latin America and at the University of Rhode Island.
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Bernard LaFayette, voting rights organizer and former director of URI nonviolence center, dies at 85
Bernard LaFayette, the former director of URI's Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies who did the risky groundwork for the Selma, Alabama, voter registration campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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Bernard LaFayette, leader of Selma voting rights campaign, dead at 85
Rev. Bernard Lafayette, who led the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, an effort marked by violence toward civil rights workers, died Thursday at age 85. LaFayette’s son, Bernard LaFayette, III, said in a statement his father died of…
Bernard LaFayette Laid Groundwork for Selma
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. He was 85. His son, Bernard LaFayette III, said the civil rights activist died Thursday of a heart...
Bernard LaFayette, civil rights leader and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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