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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.
9 de ene. de 2017 · At the age of 88, United Methodist activist and professor James M. Lawson is still delivering a message he has lived--that nonviolence is the only way. The Rev. James M. Lawson: “I have across the years seen all sorts of people change as a consequence of my own witness and the witness of the church and the witness of the struggle.”
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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.
22 de feb. de 2024 · James Lawson was and is much more than an activist. At his core he is also a religious educator. 1 He has been “a teacher of nonviolence for more than six decades”—starting in the mid-twentieth century civil rights movement, but continuing as a pastor, university professor, and teacher in local community organizations. 2.
James Lawson, Architect of Nonviolence. This documentary feature will provide a fresh lens on the inner workings of the Nonviolence Movement of America through the untold story of Rev. James Lawson, the man Martin Luther King, Jr. called, 'the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”.
