NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- 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 ...

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Benjamin L. Hooks, one-time executive director of the NAACP, died early Thursday at his home in Nashville after a long illness, reports the Associated Press. The civil-rights leader and advocate for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...