In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma

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Rozelia Forrester (“Ma Foster”), Bernard LaFayette Jr.’s grandmother (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Bernard LaFayette Sr., Bernard LaFayette’s father (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Verdell LaFayette, Bernard LaFayette Jr.’s mother (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Bernard LaFayette Jr. around age seven, known as “Little Man” in the church (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Bernard LaFayette Jr.’s sisters and mother (top row, left to right: Geraldine Coverson , Victoria Wanda Davis, Brenda Austin; bottom row, left to right: Joyce Davis Wright, Verdell LaFayette, Rozelia Kennedy) (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Kate LaFayette, Bernard’s wife (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Bernard LaFayette Jr. (standing, right) with Michael Anthony LaFayette, his brother (standing, left), and Bernard LaFayette Sr., his father (seated) (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) (Above) Front row, left to right: C. T. Vivian, Diane Nash, Bernard LaFayette Jr. at Nashville march (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) (Below) First Baptist Church, Selma (K. L. Johnson) Bernard LaFayette Jr. (left) and James Lawson, nonviolence teacher in Nashville (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) (Above) Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) (Below) Tabernacle Baptist Church (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Bernard LaFayette Jr.’s driver’s license from Selma (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Amelia Boynton, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Ernest Doyle, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Rev. Frederick Reese, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Rev. H. Shannon, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) James E. Gildersleeve, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Marie Foster, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Boise Reese (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Rev. J. D. Hunter, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Ulysses Blackmon, Courageous Eight (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Rev. Lewis Lloyd Anderson (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Bernard LaFayette Jr. after an attempted assassination by the Ku Klux Klan, Selma (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Andrew Young (left), Dr. King (second from left), and James Orange (center) at a rally in Selma (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Lois Reeves at mass meeting at First Baptist Church, Selma (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) (Above) James Bevel (second from left) (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) (Below) Dallas County Courthouse (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham (K. L. Johnson) (Above) Dr. King speaking in front of Brown Chapel, Selma (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) (Below) Andrew Young (standing left) at a rally in Selma, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) Dr. King and Bernard LaFayette Jr. (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma (K. L. Johnson) Selma as viewed from the bridge (K. L. Johnson) State capitol in Montgomery on the final day of the Selma to Montgomery March (Courtesy of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute) (Above) John Lewis, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Bernard LaFayette Jr. at reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery March, Montgomery (Personal collection of B. LaFayette Jr.) (Below) Highway 80, where Viola Liuzzo was killed (K. L. Johnson) Bernard LaFayette Jr. at the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, standing in front of two photographs from 1963: one a mug shot from his arrest, the other from when he was attacked in Selma. (P. H. Zappardino) ...