Young Benjamin’s paternal grandmother, Julia Britton Hooks (1852–1942), graduated from Berea College in Kentucky in 1874 and was only the second American black woman to graduate from college.
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Hooks visited President George H. W. Bush in the White House to discuss the escalating tensions between races.
His grandfather, Benjamin Hooks, retired as the executive director of the NAACP.
She was a charter member of the Memphis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and her example served as an inspiration for her grandson, Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992.
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