Civil Rights Movement 1960s

Bernard LaFayette, Selma Voting Rights Organizer, Dies

Bernard LaFayette, a critical early Civil Rights organizer, dies at 85

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

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Bernard LaFayette, Selma Voting Rights Organizer, Dies at 85

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Bernard LaFayette, civil rights leader who helped launch Voting Rights Act, dies aged 85

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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette speaks to reporters after attending a SCLC meeting, March 6, 2010, in Atlanta.

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Bernard LaFayette, civil rights activist and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

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Bernard LaFayette, leader of Selma voting rights campaign, dead at 85

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1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died

Civil rights activist Robert Moses has died at the age of 86. Moses endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math. Moses worked to ...

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Appetite for equality: US revolutionary Black eateries that endure to this day

Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.

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From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the impact of the sit-ins on the ideology of Southern ...