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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.
Raised in Tampa, Florida. “I’ll take Selma,” Bernard Lafayette told Jim Forman on the phone. As one of the young activists emerging from the nonviolent Nashville Movement and the 1961 Freedom Rides, Lafayette had come to understand that “it [was] not something you read that causes you to change …
Minister, Optimist, Activist. Selma, Alabama. In his youth he challenged segregated facilities through nonviolent direct action, was a Freedom Rider, and worked with SCLC in voter registration. He suffered violence, incarceration, and death threats for taking a stand against racial injustice.
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.
29 de jul. de 2020 · We revisit civil rights leader and Congressmember John Lewis’s early years of activism with Bernard Lafayette, one of Lewis’s closest friends and collaborators.
Learn about Bernard LaFayette, Jr., a co-founder of SNCC and a leader of the Nashville, Freedom Rides, and Selma movements. Explore his biography and archival collections related to his civil rights work.
