Margaret is survived by her brother, Robert L. Hook II and sister-in-law, Marsha Hook of Auburn, CA. Survivors also include nephew Robert L. Hook III of Venice, CA. and nieces Kim Crone and Heidi ...

Plenty of Northwestern University alumni say they bleed purple and white. Then there was Donald L. Hook. A 1974 graduate, Hook hadn't missed a home football game in Evanston in 41 years - a streak ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE Civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and later reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in Memphis.

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 pioneer Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks, right, and wife Frances Hooks, left, are celebrated during a ceremony renaming the Central Library on Poplar in his honor in October 2005. (Mark Weber/The ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature while quelling fear created by a 1989 firebomber who targeted his group ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Civil-rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, who shrugged off courtroom slurs as a young lawyer before earning a pioneering judgeship and later reviving a flagging NAACP, died Thursday in ...