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 ...

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 1965, has died, ...

The value of life lies not in longevity, but in what people do to give it significance. Bernard LaFayette wrote that in his memoir as he reflected on the constant threat of death he and others faced ...

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom struggle in the 1960s. By Clay Risen Bernard Lafayette Jr., a central figure ...

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in Selma that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died ...