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The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Naked Cyclists Take to Mexico City Streets to Protest Car Culture and Demand Cyclist Rights
Homenewshere.com· 14 hours agoHundreds of naked cyclists rode through Mexico City to protest car culture and demand cyclist...
US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoLawson, a Methodist minister, learned Mahatma Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience and taught them to protesters opposing racial segregation in the...
Reverend James Lawson, civil rights activist and nonviolent protest pioneer dies at 95
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoFor Nashville native Howard Gentry — longtime elected official and the city’s only Black vice mayor...
Rev. James Lawson, longtime civil rights activist, dead at 95
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta· 7 hours agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights activist who advocated for nonviolent protest and the...
James Lawson, towering civil rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoDuring his incarceration, he said he learned about the nonviolent protests led by Mohandas Ghandi in...
Vinicius welcomes jail sentence for racially abusive fans
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 3 hours agoVinicius Junior welcomed the eight-month prison sentences handed down on Monday to three Valencia...
Rev. James Lawson, made Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial barriers, has...
Los Angeles Times· 2 hours agoJames M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement,...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 7 hours agoMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained tra…
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the civil rights movement, dies at 95
NPR· 6 hours agoHe was expelled from Vanderbilt after being arrested at protests. By 1968, Lawson, then a pastor in Memphis, was mapping strategy for a sanitation workers’ strike with the ...
