Benjamin L Hooks

Civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks’ FBI file details racist threats against him

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Benjamin L. Hooks to be laid to rest in Memphis

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Mourners pay respects to ex-NAACP director Hooks

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Longtime civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks dead at 85

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not

TheGrio Staff / April 15, 2010