Bernard Lafayette Interview: Inside Martin Luther King Jr.'s Inner Circle

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Bernard Lafayette says Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to help others have a better life. He talks about Dr. King’s sense of humor and his ability to impersonate people, including Lyndon Johnson. Lafayette also details being arrested during the freedom rides in 1961, and while in jail debating Stokely Carmichael about the importance and radical approach of nonviolence.
Bernard Lafayette Jr. is an American Civil Rights Activist born July 29, 1940, and raised in Tampa, Florida. He attended college at the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee where he helped to lead the sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and restaurants and was involved in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1961 Lafayette participated in the Freedom Rides before moving to Selma to direct the Alabama voter registration project. He was appointed by Dr. King to be the national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the national coordinator for the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Lafayette later went on to work with the Chicago Open House Movement and became an ordained Baptist minister. He served as president of the American Baptist Theological Seminary.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “King in the Wilderness” that follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life: from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, through personal stories of the people who were around him.
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Bernard LaFayette, Staff Leader, SCLC
Interviewed By: Trey Ellis
Interview Date: March 29, 2017
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@jonathanmitchell2930 Жыл бұрын

This interview as well as the others in the “King in the Wilderness” series are invaluable to history of USA. I know the documentary will probably never be as good as the interviews are but I think to try to close the gap between interviews & the produced documentary, the documentary needs to be multi-part. This documentary needs to be longer in order to give justice to the great material the interviewee’s gave. Thank you Mr. Lafayette & all the other persons who gave their time & recalled their experiences & memories of the civil rights movement. ✌🏾

@ervinlay6917 3 жыл бұрын

I REALLY LIKE HIS INTERVIEW AND HOW HE RECALLS THE MEMORIES.

@jamesmoses6092 7 ай бұрын

Amen to that 😮 !

@GorillaPG22 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou very much Dr. Lafayette for your contributions to a better society and world, for your friendship and dedication to Dr. King and your historical perspective

@anthonywooten-zq4zh 3 ай бұрын

Good morning

@jamesmoses6092 7 ай бұрын

Thank God for the Poor Peoples Campaign ❤

@lillieholmes4521 3 жыл бұрын

Way Back then when the State Trooper’s killed Jimmy Johnson and TODAY it’s still law enforcement killing us....

@nicetry4096 3 жыл бұрын

Cobo Hall is Detroit, I believe.

@lillieholmes4521 3 жыл бұрын

Non-violence was a JOKE then and NOW non-violence is definitely a BIG JOKE, the beloved community....of hate.....and rage

@lillieholmes4521 3 жыл бұрын

How interesting MLK sitting in front seat telling jokes to keep the driver woke,,,

@lillieholmes4521 3 жыл бұрын

Hooping and hollering, now days these pulpit pimps Black Pastors are talking LOUD and saying nothing that will benefit black peoples,, prime example is TD. Jakes, Creflo Dollar, and Freddie Haynes,, they want the government check to make sure the SOULS get to the polls to vote

@keenannorris3309 Жыл бұрын

What's your point exactly?