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Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago“Lawson went to India and learned about nonviolence and Satyagraha, and he really helped impart that...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs a civil rights activist, at his Los Angeles church and in his practice of nonviolence, James...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
Los Angeles Times· 2 days agoJames Lawson during a panel discussion in Pasadena in 2008 and feeling awestruck by the “majestic”...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95,...
Rev. James Lawson fought injustice with love and nonviolence. The work is incomplete
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThey agreed Nashville as the ideal location to launch those efforts, both to secure local wins and...
'He never wavered': Massillon civil rights icon James Lawson dies at 95
The Repository via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, the former Massillon resident and civil rights icon who preached nonviolence...
James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLawson, who King once described as "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the...
City of Albuquerque launches Summer of Nonviolence initiative
KRQE Albuquerque via Yahoo News· 4 days agoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque Community Safety and Bernalillo County are...
Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s legacy lives on in Nashville
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The Rev. James Lawson, a storied civil rights leader, died on Monday at age 95 in Los Angeles. Lawson is widely known as the...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
WYMT Eastern Kentucky· 7 days agoLawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called him “the leading theorist...