Civil rights leader, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, who grew up in the segregated south and went on to lead the NAACP from 1977 to 1992, has died. The lawyer and ordained Baptist minister boosted membership in the NAACP, worked with Major League Baseball to widen executive and coaching opportunities for blacks and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. Pop the hood.
Hooks was “a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the United States,” said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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We have been making progress long before President Obama and lets contiue to do so after. RIP Dr Hooks.
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