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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 · Public domain image. 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.
22 de sept. de 2023 · By Jean Guerrero Columnist. Sept. 22, 2023 9:57 AM PT. The American civil rights hero the Rev. James Lawson Jr. isn’t as well known as his friend and colleague Martin Luther King Jr., who...
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.
21 de oct. de 2021 · In 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. described Rev. James Lawson as “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” For the more than 60 years that followed, Lawson continued to be a key figure that movements turned to for advice.
