Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness. Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took […]
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Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies
April 15, 2010
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!!
January 18, 2010Today, our nation stopped to honor the late great civil rights leader,Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday. Many cities held MLK Day parades and events in honor of the slain civil rights leader, and President Obama will host a conversation with a small group of African-American seniors and their grandchildren on the legacy of […]
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