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James Morris Lawson Jr. (born September 22, 1928) is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement . [1] During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee .
September 22, 1928. Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries. As a minister who trained many activists in nonviolent resistance, James Lawson made a critical contribution to the civil rights movement. In his 1968 speech, “ I’ve Been to the Mountaintop ,” Martin Luther King spoke of Lawson as one of the “noble men ...
El reverendo James Lawson, icono de la lucha por los derechos civiles en los Estados Unidos, es un activista social prominente a quien el Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., su amigo y compañero, lo describió como destacado teórico y estratega del mundo. Con 92 años, el reverendo Lawson continúa dando conferencias y seminarios sobre la no violencia.
10 de jun. de 2009 · A supporter of the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent protest, the Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. was one of the Civil Rights Movement’s leading theoreticians and tacticians in the African American struggle for freedom and equality in the 1950s and 1960s.
9 de ene. de 2017 · United Methodist pastor and activist James M. Lawson is known as the "architect of the nonviolence movement" in America. Lawson was a close ally to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and trained the young people whose peaceful witness at lunch counters in the South sought to end racial discrimination in businesses and public places.
James Lawson. American activist and educator. Learn about this topic in these articles: history of sit-in movement. In sit-in movement: Growth of the sit-in movement.
28 de mar. de 2024 · James Lawson - Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers - Library at Shippensburg University. Ship. Library. Special Topics. Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers. James Lawson (1928-) Biography and Writings. Biographical Articles. James M. Lawson, Jr., 1928- (Contemporary Black Biography)
