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Rev. James Lawson Jr.’s legacy lives on in Nashville
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 3 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...
Hits and Misses
Observer-Reporter· 3 hours agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2015. Lawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 21 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· 4 days agoThe Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent...
James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and pioneer in nonviolent protest, dies at 95
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest...
Rev. James Lawson fought injustice with love and nonviolence. The work is incomplete
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoHe held his meetings in Nashville churches, in Black houses of worship that underscored his...
Rev. James Lawson Jr., icon of the Civil Rights Movement and longtime LA pastor, dead at 95
FOX 11 News Los Angeles· 4 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman...
The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 2 days 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
KAAL Austin· 4 days agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
Episode 1: The Holy Grail of Baseball
WUSF 89.7· 19 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
