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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los ...
The Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for non-violent resistance to racism, even in the face of brutality. A Methodist minister and student of Gandhi, Lawson mentored civil rights leaders, and ...
June 10 (Reuters) - James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw discrimination in ...
"What happened here in Memphis changed our world." Those words were spoken Feb. 20 at the National Civil Rights Museum by former New York television news anchor Carol Jenkins, moderator of what was ...
LOS ANGELES — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has ...
As a schoolboy growing up in northern Ohio, when a white boy called him the N-word, James Lawson reacted the way many Black people would have in that situation: he slapped the other child. His ...
The Rev. James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement and helped organize the push to desegregate lunch counters in ...
The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the ...
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James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter ...