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Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
Los Angeles Times· 12 hours agoJames M. Lawson Jr., who died last week, was a legendary hero of the civil rights movement; the...
The Reverend James Lawson Jr., Civil Rights Trailblazer, Dies at 95 - The Baltimore Times
Baltimore Times· 3 days agoReverend James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist pastor and civil rights leader, passed away at the age of...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
Alaska News Source· 6 days agoLawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called him “the leading theorist...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHe mentored the students, came up with...student accepted, until he got expelled for helping with ...
How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was inspired to broaden Civil Rights Movement
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoLeaders in the Civil Rights Movement at the time thought white students might be able to recruit more members if they reached out to ...
Rev. James Lawson Jr., icon of the Civil Rights Movement and longtime LA pastor, dead at 95
FOX 11 News Los Angeles· 6 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· 6 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights giant whose workshops teaching nonviolent resistance powered...