Bernard LaFayette, architect of Selma's voting rights campaign, dies at 85

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Bernard LaFayette, architect of Selma's voting rights campaign, dies at 85
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Bernard LaFayette III, a key organizer who built the Alabama voter-registration drive that helped propel the 1965 Voting Rights Act, died at 85; a Nashville-born SNCC veteran who led nonviolent campaigns, he helped mobilize Selma and trained leaders who advanced civil rights across the South and beyond.

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