Bernard Lafayette

Bernard LaFayette Jr. Wins Gandhi Award

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 1, 2016

Bernard LaFayette Jr., whose memoir “In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma” was released in paperback earlier this year, has been awarded the 2016 Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace.

Political

Lewis victory in Congress taken from civil rights playbook

Errin Haines Whack, Associated PressJune 29, 2016

Bernard Lafayette was all smiles as he watched his civil rights comrade John Lewis commandeer the floor of the U.S. House for an old-fashioned, marathon sit-in over gun legislation.