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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.
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.
Bernard Lafayette. A photograph of Bernard Lafayette after he was beating in Selma, AL, 1963, crmvet.org. July 29, 1940 –. Raised in Tampa, Florida. “I’ll take Selma,” Bernard Lafayette told Jim Forman on the phone.
He has developed curricula in nonviolence and remains active in the movement for human freedom around the world. Read More. Gathering to Board. A group of Freedom Riders, including Bernard Lafayette (far right) stand in front of a bus in Birmingham, Alabama on May 19, 1961.
29 de jul. de 2020 · Civil rights leader and scholar Bernard Lafayette shares his memories of his friend and colleague John Lewis, who led the first Freedom Rides in 1961 to challenge segregation on buses. He also discusses the strategy, violence and impact of the Freedom Rides and the sit-ins in Nashville.
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. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement.
27 de jul. de 2020 · Race. “He did not believe in giving up”: Remembering a friendship with John Lewis. Bernard Lafayette, a fellow Freedom Rider, reflects on Lewis’s legacy of resistance. By Fabiola Cineas Jul 27,...
