Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at 92, Rev. Al Sharpton says.
Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes, a prominent civil rights activist and longtime president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at the age of 92. Her son released a statement Saturday morning confirming the passing of the activist,
Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), will travel to Selma, Alabama Sunday to mark the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, during which police brutally assaulted peaceful demonstrators advocating for voting rights as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge.