Bernard Lafayette

The Reverend Bernard Lafayette
Lafayette in 2020
Born	(1940-07-29) July 29, 1940 (age 84) Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Education	Highlander Folk School
Alma mater	American Baptist College Harvard Graduate School of Education
Known for	Activism in the Civil Rights Movement

Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette) Jr. (/læfiˈɛt/; born July 29, 1940) is an American civil rights activist and organizer and Baptist minister, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights Movement; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked closely throughout the 1960s movements with groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the American Friends Service Committee.^[1]