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How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoSue Thrasher, one of the original founders, was a Scarritt College student who began protesting segregation at Nashville restaurants in the 1960s after a woman from the Fiji ...
Jane Fonda to join Jill Biden at Reno appearance to engage senior voters
Reno Gazette-Journal· 2 days agoAcademy Award winner Jane Fonda will join Jill Biden Friday in Reno to tout the president’s campaign...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 5 days agoLawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent protest during...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLawson was an American civil rights icon who worked alongside luminaries like King, Diane Nash, John...
If you have to watch one Netflix movie in June, stream this one
Digital Trends via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe movie opens not with Ali but with a young Sam Cooke (David Elliott) serenading screaming fans...
Rev. James Lawson, made Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial barriers, has...
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoLawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoLawson spoke at Lewis' funeral in 2020. Rev. James Lawson speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn. in September...
Hits and Misses
Observer-Reporter· 1 day agoHIT: James Lawson was born in 1928, the same year as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was an important ally of King’s in the civil rights...
Letter: Younger generation insulated from personal responsibility
Quad-City Times· 1 day agoThe recent demonstrations on college campuses against Israel remind me of the unrest on college campuses during the 1960s … with some differences.
South Los Angeles pastor and civil rights icon, Rev. James Lawson Jr., dies at 95
CBS News· 5 days agoLongtime South Los Angeles pastor and community leader, the Rev. James Lawson Jr., died Monday at...