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Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoLawson sought to better understand Gandhian...principles so he could apply them to battling Jim Crow...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoVanderbilt University began to make that right in 2006 when then-university president Gordon Gee...
Civil Rights Icon, Nonviolence Advocate, Pastor James Lawson Dies at 95 | KFI AM 640 | LA Local News
iHeartRadio· 4 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman...
Rev. James Lawson, teacher of the Civil Rights Movement, dead at 95
Axios· 3 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights giant whose workshops teaching nonviolent resistance powered...
'He never wavered': Massillon civil rights icon James Lawson dies at 95
The Repository via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"His significance in giving that message of nonviolence, which I think, for many people, has became...
US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHis belief in non-violence came at a time when opinion in black communities was divided over how to resist institutional racism and segregation. King...
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
Civil rights leader, Uniontown native the Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95
The Uniontown Herald Standard· 2 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
‘Tremendous loss but, magnificent legacy’: City leaders, historians, Bernice King remember the life...
WSMV Nashville· 3 days agoJames Lawson, civil rights activist, reverend, doctor and one of the main teachers of non-violet...