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Hooks, Benjamin Lawson
US Baptist clergyman, lawyer, and black civil rights leader
vice-president of Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association of Memphis 1955-1969
member of Federal Communications Commission 1972-1977 (1st black member)
executive director of NAACP 1977-1993
Spingarn Medal 1986
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