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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin L. Hooks was an Executive Director and CEO for NAACP with 57 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1982 Debate. The year with the most videos ...

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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.

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