Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks, who died Thursday at 85, revived the NAACP as the organization began to falter in the years following the peak of the civil rights movement. In 15 years as ...

Benjamin L. Hooks was a leader I truly admired. Growing up in Hardeman County, about 70 miles from Memphis, I often saw him on Memphis television and read about him in The Commercial Appeal. There was ...

Jurist, lawyer, fabled minister, and icon of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Benjamin Hooks was as universally beloved a figure, both in Memphis and in the world at large, as it was possible to be ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, died Thursday morning at his home in Memphis. He was 85, and had been ill ...

Civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks has died after a long illness. He was a lawyer, a minister, a criminal court judge and he led the NAACP from 1977 to 1993. In 2007, Benjamin Hooks received the ...

NASHVILLE (AP) — Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, who as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for 16 years championed minorities in an increasingly conservative political era, died ...

As the nation mourns the death of civil rights warrior Benjamin Hooks, who lead the NAACP from 1977 to 1992 as executive director, it’s easy to forget one important thing that distinguished him from ...

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Benjamin L. Hooks was a pioneering civil rights leader, attorney, minister, and businessman from Memphis. He became the first African American criminal court judge in Tennessee in 1965 and the first ...