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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, 2020. Bernard Lafayette (* 29. Juli 1940 in Tampa) ist ein früher Gefährte Martin Luther Kings. Leben. Lafayette war einer der Hauptorganisatoren der Stimmberechtigungskampagne (voting rights campaign) in Selma, Alabama.
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.
Lafayette went on to become one of the most widely recognized authorities on strategies for nonviolent social change and one of the leading exponents of nonviolent direct action in the world. Sources. James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries (Seattle: The University of Press, 1997).
A group of Freedom Riders, including Bernard Lafayette (far right) stand in front of a bus in Birmingham, Alabama on May 19, 1961. Lafayette dropped out of school in order to set an example that student demonstrators would push on despite threats of jail and violence.
Twenty-year-old Bernard Lafayette hailed from Tampa, FL and was enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary. A veteran of the Nashville sit-ins, Lafayette...
29. Juli 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.
