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Freedom Rides. In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) initiated a movement to enforce federal integration laws on interstate bus routes. This movement, known as the Freedom Rides, had African American and white volunteers ride together on bus routes through the segregated South. Lafayette wanted to participate, but his parents forbade him.
Bernard Lafayette Jr., Tampa, FL Twenty-year-old Bernard Lafayette hailed from Tampa, FL and was enrolled as an undergraduate at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary.
Minister, Optimist, Activist. Selma, Alabama. In his youth he challenged segregated facilities through nonviolent direct action, was a Freedom Rider, and worked with SCLC in voter registration. He suffered violence, incarceration, and death threats for taking a stand against racial injustice.
In 1961, he was badly beaten as a Freedom Rider in Montgomery, Alabama when a huge white mob surrounded the Freedom Riders and launched a brutal attack that was ignored by police. And on the night that Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi–June 12, 1963–Lafayette was severely beaten in Selma.
Feb 1, 2010 · Bernard Lafayette is Distinguished Professor in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding and senior scholar-in-residence at Emory University. Jim Zwerg. participated in the Nashville-New Orleans...
Jul 29, 2020 · Lafayette participated with Lewis in the first Freedom Rides of 1961 as they attempted to integrate buses and faced brutal beatings by white mobs, and was a fellow leader in the Student...
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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 the Southern Christian Leadership Con...
