Illinois HR 730: MEMORIAL-DR. B. LAFAYETTE JR.

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HR0730LRB104 21174 LAW 35588 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of 

3Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of civil 

4rights leader Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr., who passed away on 

5March 5, 2026; and

6 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette played a pivotal role in civil 

7rights and voting activism in the 1960s and beyond; and

8 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette's activism began at age 12, when he 

9joined the NAACP after watching the abuse his grandmother 

10endured on a segregated bus; and

11 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette helped found the Student Nonviolent 

12Coordinating Committee at age 19 in 1960, continuing his 

13activism past high school; and

14 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette roomed with civil rights 

15trailblazer and future U.S. Representative John Lewis while 

16attending American Baptist Theological Seminary, known today 

17as American Baptist College, where the pair joined the Freedom 

18Riders shortly thereafter, becoming two of more than 300 

19Freedom Riders beaten and taken to Parchman Prison, also known 

20as Mississippi State Penitentiary, in 1961; and

HR0730- 2 -LRB104 21174 LAW 35588 r

1 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette was named director of the Alabama 

2Voter Registration Campaign at age 22 in 1963; that same year, 

3he survived an assassination attempt, imploring an armed 

4neighbor trying to intervene to not shoot his attempted 

5assassin, a testament to his deep belief in nonviolence; and

6 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette began expanding his activism to 

7Illinois when he was recruited to the American Friends Service 

8Committee in Chicago in 1964; and

9 WHEREAS, Dr. LaFayette was in Chicago when hundreds of 

10protesters were attacked in Selma, Alabama during Bloody 

11Sunday in 1965; undete