A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Civil rights leader Bernard LaFayette Jr., a key strategist behind the Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the ...

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 ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

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

Bernard LaFayette, a key strategist in the Civil Rights Movement who laid the groundwork for the historic Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the passage of the ...

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

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

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