Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who helped organize the Selma Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s, died March 5, 2026, at age 85. In this 1980 "Sunday Morning" report by Ted Holmes, Lafayette ...

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

First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...

OPINION: I was 42 when I learned that Dr. Arnett Elyus Girardeau Sr. stood between Black teenagers and a white ...

Bernard LaFayette, a leader with the Chicago Freedom Movement and the Selma voting rights organizer who laid the groundwork for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.