Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

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LaFayette "never stopped teaching the world that change is possible through love, courage, and the power of nonviolence" ...

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

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

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Bishop Edward Mitchell of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Roanoke joined Here @ Home Tuesday to offer perspective on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s impact on the Civil ...

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.

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a ...

ATLANTA — Another key location in the civil rights movement will now be protected forever. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park expansion, the Prince Hall Masonic Temple and ...