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Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoLawson is best known for piloting two crucial civil rights campaigns – one in Nashville......
Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s legacy lives on in Nashville
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat...created in his honor. In the late 1950s, Lawson began leading workshops on nonviolent action in Nashville church basements. At the time, the city...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WUNC Chapel Hill· 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 ...
Axios Nashville
Axios· 2 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights giant whose workshops teaching nonviolent resistance powered influential protests that reshaped the Jim Crow South ...
James Lawson, architect of nonviolent protest of civil rights movement, dies at 95
Washington Post· 3 days agoThe Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent...
Rev. James Lawson's impact on Nashville's civil rights history will never be forgotten
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHis role in the nonviolent movement for justice -- including his significant contributions to the ...
Rev. James Lawson, made Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial barriers, has...
Los Angeles Times· 3 days agoJames M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement,...
James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95
WSAU Wausau· 3 days agoBy Jasper Ward (Reuters) - James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of ...
Rev. James Lawson, Mentor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies from Cardiac Arrest - He was 95 | VIDEO |...
EURweb· 3 days agoReverend Lawson, a revered civil rights activist and esteemed university professor, was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement
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...