Hooks' inspiration to fight social injustice and bigotry stemmed from his experience of guarding Italian prisoners of war while serving overseas in the Army during World War II -- foreign prisoners ...

Mourners paid respects Monday to longtime NAACP executive director Benjamin L. Hooks as he lay in repose at the Detroit church where he preached for 30 years. Hooks was pastor at the Greater New Mount ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — After years of fighting for social justice, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks was laid to rest Wednesday. Political leaders and civil rights figures gathered ...

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 ...

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. He was 85.

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. He was 85 ...

"Benjamin Lawson Hooks, an outspoken advocate of rights of black citizens from his days as a Memphis lawyer and judge to his national leadership of the NAACP, died early this morning after an illness, ...

Plenty of Northwestern University alumni say they bleed purple and white. Then there was Donald L. Hook. A 1974 graduate, Hook hadn't missed a home football game in Evanston in 41 years - a streak ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85. State Rep. Ulysses Jones, a member of the church ...

Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85. Hooks died ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - 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 ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, who for 15 years led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as it struggled to remain an effective champion of minorities in an era of rising political ...