Bernard Lafayette

The Reverend
Bernard Lafayette
Lafayette in 2020
Born (1940-07-29) July 29, 1940
Tampa, Florida, U.S.
EducationHighlander Folk School
Alma materAmerican Baptist College
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Known forActivism 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.

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