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American Baptist College. Harvard Graduate School of Education. Known for. Activism in the Civil Rights Movement. Parent (s) Bernard Lafayette Sr. Verdell Lafayette. 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.
Lafayette, Bernard. July 19, 1940. A student activist in the Nashville, Tennessee, sit-in campaign of 1960, and a longtime staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bernard Lafayette gained a reputation as a steadfast proponent of nonviolence before Martin Luther King offered him the position of program director of ...
He has developed curricula in nonviolence and remains active in the movement for human freedom around the world. Read More. Gathering to Board. A group of Freedom Riders, including Bernard Lafayette (far right) stand in front of a bus in Birmingham, Alabama on May 19, 1961.
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.
He trained Diane Nash; Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis and many others through his famous workshops on the tactics of nonviolent direct action.
29 de jul. de 2020 · Guests. Bernard Lafayette. civil rights leader, scholar and longtime friend and former roommate of the late Congressmember John Lewis, as well as a professor at Auburn University in Alabama....
Center Founder Bernard LaFayette, Jr., Ed.D. The URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies was first directed in 1998 by Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. A Civil Rights Movement hero and nonviolence activist for nearly fifty years, Dr. LaFayette was a co-founder and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Nashville sit-ins, a ...
