NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 of ...
Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the former director of URI’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies who did the risky groundwork for the Selma, Alabama, voter registration campaign that ...