Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

"LaFayette was one of a delegation of #Nashville students who in 1960 had helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which organized desegregation and voting rights campaigns across the South."

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On the 3rd Monday of January every year the world celebrates the late Martin Luther King Jnr.

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." – MLK Jnr.

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