Bernard LaFayette
1940 - 2026
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Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr., the civil rights strategist who quietly laid the groundwork for the Selma, Alabama voting rights campaign that produced the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, died of a heart attack on March 5, 2026. He was 85. Born July 29, 1940, in Tampa, Florida, the oldest of eight...
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