Longtime Civil Rights Leader Benjamin Hooks Dead At 85

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Thu, 04/15/2010 - 7:01am

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85.

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