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Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks, who died Thursday at 85, revived the NAACP as the organization began to falter in the years following the peak of the civil rights movement. In 15 years as ...

Benjamin Hooks was a figure of great influence in Memphis, known for his leadership and commitment to bettering the lives of those around him. Born and raised in the city, he worked tirelessly to ...

NASHVILLE — 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 ...

Jurist, lawyer, fabled minister, and icon of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Benjamin Hooks was as universally beloved a figure, both in Memphis and in the world at large, as it was possible to be ...

Benjamin L. Hooks was a pioneering civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and businessman from Memphis. He became the first African American criminal court judge in Tennessee in 1965 and the first ...

As the nation mourns the death of civil rights warrior Benjamin Hooks, who lead the NAACP from 1977 to 1992 as executive director, it’s easy to forget one important thing that distinguished him from ...

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

Benjamin Hooks' death made me remember the hope, elation and pride that I felt when President Richard Nixon appointed him to the Federal Communications Commission, making him the first black person ...