(FCC). Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Growing up on South Lauderdale and Vance, he was the fifth son of Robert B and Bessie White Hooks. He...

Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. (born January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina) is an African-American activist, author, journalist, and the current president...

Now?" Guests include Ernest Green, Benjamin Hooks, and Jesse Jackson. This conclave's guests included Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Vernon Jordan, H....

Chairpersons of the coalition have included Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Hooks, Dorothy Height, and Judith L. Lichtman. Senior executives have included...

criticizing civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Vernon Jordan Jr., and Benjamin Hooks by making an analogy between allegiance to "the black leadership" and...

(NAACP), and her example served as an inspiration for her grandson, Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992. Julia was also a...

effectively, a "backdoor race-ing.": 887  As to the criminal verdict, Benjamin Hooks, director of the NAACP, called the outcome "inexcusable," adding, "It...

of 76, Wilkins finally retired from the NAACP and was succeeded by Benjamin Hooks. Wilkins was honored with the title Director Emeritus of the NAACP in...

Hooks is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Hooks (1925-2010), American civil rights leader Brian Hooks (born 1973)...

Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive director Benjamin Hooks; Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum (introduced by a film by her father...

Palladium 13th January 27, 1980 Louis Gossett Jr./Rita Moreno/Ted Lange/Benjamin Hooks/Valenti 14th December 5, 1981 Robert Guillaume (note: timing changed...

Victims Unit Vernon Spiers Episode: "Brotherhood" 2004 Something the Lord Made Harold Thomas Television film 2015 Show Me a Hero Benjamin Hooks 2 episodes...

until 1982. Roy Wilkins retired as executive director in 1977, and Benjamin Hooks, a lawyer and clergyman, was elected his successor. In the 1990s, the...

(1920–1929) Walter White (1929–1955) Roy Wilkins (1955–1977) Benjamin Hooks (1977–1992) Benjamin Chavis (1993–1994) Earl Shinhoster (1994–1996) Kweisi Mfume...

Samuel M. Nabrit, Walter E. Massey, Benjamin Mays, Bayard Rustin, Langston Hughes, Count Basie, Roy Wilkins, Benjamin Hooks, Vernon Jordan, Robert Henry Lawrence...

role model that today's youth who look at the movie could remember." Benjamin Hooks, the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement...

(1920–1929) Walter White (1929–1955) Roy Wilkins (1955–1977) Benjamin Hooks (1977–1992) Benjamin Chavis (1993–1994) Earl Shinhoster (1994–1996) Kweisi Mfume...

Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civil rights leader, environmentalist and executive director of the Sierra Club. He served...

Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist. Along with Douglas Turner Ward and Gerald S. Krone,...

(1920–1929) Walter White (1929–1955) Roy Wilkins (1955–1977) Benjamin Hooks (1977–1992) Benjamin Chavis (1993–1994) Earl Shinhoster (1994–1996) Kweisi Mfume...

Lehman in 1892 First African American male (since Reconstruction): Benjamin Hooks (1948) in 1965 First African American male (General Sessions Court):...

William H. Hastie Alpha Psi First Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands Benjamin Hooks Epsilon Phi (1942) Executive Director of NAACP, Civil Rights Activist...

Maryland), William Donald Schaefer (Mayor of Baltimore and later Governor), Benjamin Hooks, director of the NAACP; and Dorothy Height, president of the National...

Sharpton Augustus Tolton Pierre and Juliette Toussaint T. D. Jakes Benjamin Hooks Vashti Murphy McKenzie Raphael G. Warnock Calvin O. Butts III Kirbyjon...

holiday. As a progressive voter, he had civil rights leaders such as Benjamin Hooks, Andrew Young and Coretta Scott King and conservative black intellectuals...

Kaplan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of three sons of Benjamin and Celia Kaplan, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. In 1924, he and his brothers...

mayor of Memphis, Tennessee from 1992 until his resignation in 2009 Benjamin Hooks 1925-2010 1943 former executive director of NAACP Myron Lowery former...

Northwestern University), former justice of the United States Supreme Court Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP Kelly Loeffler, former United...

1971 July 1, 1976 Richard E. Wiley January 5, 1972 October 13, 1977 Benjamin Hooks Democratic July 5, 1972 July 25, 1977 James Henry Quello April 30, 1974...

the bill would not have led employers to adopt quotas. For example, Benjamin Hooks, the then-executive director of the NAACP, said he was "at a loss" as...