Benjamin Hooks

Originally published Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 10:05 PM ShareBenjamin Hooks, pioneering civil-rights leader, dies at 85Benjamin Hooks, who as executive director of the NAACP for 16 years championed minorities in an increasingly conservative political era, died Thursday at his home in Memphis.

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