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How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoThe students were supported by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which led the desegregation sit-ins ...
James Lawson, Civil Rights Activist and MLK’s Chief Strategist, Dies at 95
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMartin Luther King Jr.'s family, Chef José Andrés, Cornel West and numerous others mourn the...
Reverend James Lawson, civil rights activist and nonviolent protest pioneer dies at 95
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAs the movement progressed in Nashville, Vanderbilt expelled Lawson in 1960 for his role. In 1960,...
Civil rights leader James Lawson Jr. dies at 95
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLawson was called on to organize what became the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which sought to organize the spontaneous ...
James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJames Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin...
Rev. James Lawson, made Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial barriers, has...
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement,...
Rev. James Lawson, teacher of the Civil Rights Movement, dead at 95
Axios· 6 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights giant whose workshops teaching nonviolent resistance powered...
Pa.-born civil rights leader who led sit-ins, Freedom Rides dies at 95
The Patriot-News· 6 days agoMorris Lawson III told The Washington Post. Recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Lawson...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
WBAY Green Bay· 6 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
'He never wavered': Massillon civil rights icon James Lawson dies at 95
The Repository via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDuring this time in Nashville, Lawson also worked closely with fellow Massillon resident, the late...