Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville
lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young
age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter
Registration Project in Selma-a city that had previously been removed
from the organizati