Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

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So anti-modernism and honor are two hooks you can hang your hats on.

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So Benjamin Hooks enrolled at DePaul University in Chicago,Illinois, where he earned a law degree in nineteen forty-eight.

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It was said to include hooks and other attachments for securing the person to a fixed object.

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Benjamin Hooks died last week at the age of eighty-five.

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But Benjamin Hooks placed more importance on legal activism.

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"Air Guitar is the embodiment of the music that you hear, and so when you hear a rock song that really grabs you, just those steel hooks in your rib cage, you start miming it out.

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The pinnacle of Hooks' activism came in 1977, when he began his 15-year tenure as director of the NAACP.

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At a White House ceremony in 2007, Benjamin Hooks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

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After his retirement from the NAACP in 1992, Hooks continued to press the cause of civil rights and education.

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Yet Hooks' family exposed him early on to what civil rights activists of his generation came to call the Freedom Struggle.

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However,like millions of others, Hooks left his studies to serve in the armed forces during World War II.

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Both King and Hooks wanted to effect social change through a combination of moral force and legislation.

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But Hooks was most proud of the youth education programs he helped develop in America's inner cities.

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So Hooks enrolled at De Paul University in Chicago,Illinois, where he earned a law degree in 1948.

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he's undergoing treatment." Piracy off the lawless Somali coast has plagued ships along the popular sea route that hooks around the Horn of Africa.

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But Hooks put more emphasis on legal activism than Dr.King, who spoke as often about changing white people's hearts as he did about changing the laws.

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Hooks graduated from high school in 1941, and enrolled in a local college.

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He helped create the Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, to preserve the history of the civil rights movement and advance its legacy.

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For example, Hooks' parents always insisted that whites address them as Mr.and Mrs.Hooks, rather than by their first names, as was the custom when whites spoke to blacks.

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Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis,Tennessee - a city,like most in the racially- segregated American South at the time, that discriminated against African-Americans in all areas of public life.

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During this period, Hooks helped articulate the group's positions on racial equity in hiring and school admissions and the creation of a national holiday to honor the late Martin Luther King,Jr.

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And Hooks' older sister was secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP), the national civil rights group he would one day lead.

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Hooks recalled that while some activists advocated violence.

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National Historic Site in Atlanta,Georgia. After his death was announced on Thursday,April 15, Benjamin Hooks was remembered as a pioneer,preacher,storyteller, conciliator and visionary, and a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the United States.

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During the 1950s, Hooks and the NAACP helped to organize many of the black-led boycotts of segregated white businesses, and non-violent sit-in protests that became emblematic of the burgeoning civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King,Jr.

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