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James Lawson | |
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&sq=Taylor_Swift&lang=en&file=File:Jameslawson.jpg) James Lawson speaking at a community meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2005 | |
| Born | James Morris Lawson Jr. September 22, 1928 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Baldwin Wallace College Oberlin College Vanderbilt University Boston University |
| Occupation(s) | Activist, professor, minister |
| Known for | Nashville sit-ins |
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.[2][3] He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.
- ^ "Freedom Riders: James Lawson". PBS. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
- ^ Hughes, Richard A. (2009). Pro-justice Ethics: From Lament to Nonviolence. New York: Peter Lang. p. 226. ISBN 978-1433105258.
- ^ Catsam, Derek Charles (2009). Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813125114.
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