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Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr.

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr.

Civil Rights Movement Leader, Minister, Educator, and Lecturer

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Selma, AL, USA
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Anti-Racism, Black Heritage, Black History Month, Civil Rights, DEI, Diversity & Inclusion, Professors, Social Activism, Social Justice
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Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Biography

Bernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He Co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples' campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Dr. LaFayette has served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama.

An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama; and a teaching fellow at Harvard University.

His Publications include the Curriculum and Training Manual for the Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolent Community Leadership Training Program, his doctoral thesis, Pedagogy for Peace and Nonviolence, and Campus Ministries and Social Change in the '60's (Duke University Review) and The Leaders Manual: A Structured Guide and Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence with David Jehnsen. Dr. LaFayette has traveled extensively to many countries as a lecturer and consultant on peace and nonviolence.

Dr. LaFayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

He is the founder and National President of God-Parents Club, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and a founder of the Association for Kingian Nonviolence Education and Training Works.

Dr. LaFayette was formerly a Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the chairperson for the International; Nonviolence Executive Planning Board. He was also appointed by Rhode Island Governor, Lincoln Almond, as chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. Currently, Dr. LaFayette is a Senior Scholar in Residence at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

A native of Tampa, Florida, Dr. LaFayette is married to the former Kate Bulls of Tuskegee, Alabama and has two sons, James and Bernard LaFayette, III.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 01/01/2025.

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Videos

  • SCLC Today--SCLC Chairman Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. - YouTube
    SCLC Today--SCLC Chairman Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. - YouTube
    SCLC is excited that our Chairman of the Board and Civil Rights Icon, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. joins in our conversation during Black ...
  • Dr. Bernard LaFayette and Kingian Non-Violence - YouTube
    Dr. Bernard LaFayette and Kingian Non-Violence - YouTube
    Mark Pearson is sharing songs and stories as well as his own experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's.
  • After Selma with Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. - Uncut - YouTube
    After Selma with Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. - Uncut - YouTube
    Celebrating Black History Month at LSC-Kingwood, The Intercultural Center and the Center for Civic Engagement present a dialogue with Dr.
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Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. Books

  • Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
    Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

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