Hooks, Benjamin Lawson, 1925-, American black leader, b. Memphis, Tenn. In 1972 President
Nixon named Hooks, a lawyer and Baptist minister, to the
Federal Communications Commission, making him its first black member. From 1977 to 1993 he was the executive director of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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