Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette speaks to reporters after attending a SCLC meeting on March 6, 2010, in Atlanta.

Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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