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Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s legacy lives on in Nashville
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 2 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...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoCivil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 3 days agoAs a young Methodist missionary, Rev. Lawson traveled to India, where he studied the principles of...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 1 day agoA key architect of the Civil Rights Movement has died. The Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism, even in the face of brutality. A Methodist minister and ...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
WYMT Eastern Kentucky· 3 days agoLawson met King in 1957, after spending three years in India soaking up knowledge about Mohandas K....
The Best True-Story TV Shows of 2024 (So Far)
Esquire via AOL· 8 hours agoGenius: MLK / X People often paint Martin Luther King and Malcolm X as enemies, but that’s not the full picture. The two civil rights leaders had...
Rev. James Lawson Jr., icon of the Civil Rights Movement and longtime LA pastor, dead at 95
FOX 11 News Los Angeles· 3 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman...
Kamala Harris hosts Pride Month reception honoring LGBTQ+ lives and the progress made
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago“Vice President Harris is that leader who has always chosen to stand up for us.” In her speech,...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLawson was working on the sanitation strike in Memphis in 1968 and called King to participate....
Episode 1: The Holy Grail of Baseball
WUSF 89.7· 11 hours agoBirmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the American Civil Rights Movement. But in order to understand the struggle, you don’t have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball
