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- NAME: Benjamin Hooks
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer
- BIRTH DATE: January 31, 1925
- DEATH DATE: April 15, 2010
- EDUCATION: Le Moyne College, Howard University, De Paul University Law
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Memphis, Tennessee
- PLACE OF DEATH: Memphis, Tennessee
- Full Name: Benjamin Lawson Hooks
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Benjamin Hooks became a minister and public defender during the civil rights movement. He would later become the executive director of the NAACP.
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Benjamin Hooks, born in Memphis, Tennessee, became a minister and public defender during the civil rights movement. He worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and later became the first African-American commissioner of the FCC. Hooks resigned the position to become the executive director of the NAACP (1977-1993).© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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