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

VOA: special.2010.04.24

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

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.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

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.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16