Category:Benjamin Hooks

**Benjamin Hooks**
	American civil rights leader (1925-2010)
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Date of birth	31 January 1925; Memphis
Date of death	15 April 2010; Memphis
Place of burial	Elmwood Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Howard University (–1944); DePaul University College of Law (Juris Doctor, –1948); Booker T. Washington High School; LeMoyne–Owen College (1941–1943);
Occupation	civil rights advocate; lawyer; Baptist minister (1956–); professor; judge;
Member of	NAACP (executive director); Federal Communications Commission (Richard Nixon, 1972–1977); Omega Psi Phi; American Bar Association; National Bar Association; Tennessee Bar Association; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (chairperson, 1979–1994); freemasonry; honorary doctor of Rhodes University (2008);
Relative	Julia Britton Hooks (grandmother);
Award received	Spingarn Medal (1986); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2007); Humanitarian of the Year (1984); honorary doctorate (1988); International Civil Rights Walk of Fame (2008); award; hall of fame (1998);
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