Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died, according to the Associated Press.Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. Bernard Lafayette speaks onstage during "Passing The Torch From Selma To Today" documentary screening at Skirball Cultural Center on Feb. 22, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. Maury Phillips / Getty Images On March 7, 1965, the beating of future congressman John Lewis and voting rights marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge led the evening news, shocking the nation's conscience and pushing Congress to act.…