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Reverend James Lawson, civil rights activist and nonviolent protest pioneer dies at 95
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoVanderbilt University began to make that right in 2006 when then-university president Gordon Gee...
James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95
Reuters via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoJames Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin...
James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95
BBC via AOL· 20 hours agoAfter three years in India, he returned to the US, where he met King, a fellow Methodist minister, at Oberlin College in Ohio. His belief in non-violence...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 21 hours ago"It wasn't just about the absence of violence, it was an active and radical strategy and philosophy...
'He never wavered': Massillon civil rights icon James Lawson dies at 95
The Repository via Yahoo News· 22 hours ago"His significance in giving that message of nonviolence, which I think, for many people, has became...
Sandy Hook shooting survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates
San Francisco Chronicle· 17 minutes agoTwenty of their fellow first graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School...
Byron Donalds Was ‘Right’ About Jim Crow And The Black Family, Civil Rights Activist Bob Woodson...
Black America Web· 20 hours agoA longtime civil rights activist with a history of working with conservatives has defended...
The Toni Morrison Award Winners: Fighters in the Censorship Trenches
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 7 hours ago–winner and MacArthur grant recipient Jacqueline Woodson, who sat on a panel during the Right to...
