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“Black Americans are not defeated,” Mr. Hooks told Ebony magazine soon after he became the association’s executive director in 1977. “The civil rights movement is not dead.

Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85. Hooks ...

Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis. He was 85.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — After years of fighting for social justice, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks was laid to rest Wednesday. Political leaders and civil rights figures gathered to pay ...

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Frances Dancy Hooks, longtime civil rights activist and widow of Dr. Benjamin L Hooks, died Thursday. Mrs. Hooks, 88, leaves behind a legacy of activism devoted to improving education, ...

Queer Black feminist bell hooks, one of the nation’s most esteemed intellectuals, has passed away. She was 69. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, her pen name was her great ...

Jones put on display literature and pictures to help tell of Benjamin L. Hook's work, and displayed robes he wore as a pastor at the church for decades in two stints, starting in the 1950′s.

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church ...

Benjamin Hooks became executive director of the NAACP in 1977, taking over a group that was $1 million in debt and had shrunk to 200,000 members from nearly a half-million in the 1950s and 1960s.