James Lawson
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![]() James Lawson speaking at a community meeting in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005.
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Born | James Morris Lawson, Jr. September 22, 1928 Uniontown, Pennsylvania |
Residence | Nashville, Tennessee |
Nationality | American |
Education | Baldwin Wallace College Oberlin College Vanderbilt University |
Occupation | Activist Professor |
James Morris Lawson, Jr. (born September 22, 1928) is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading peaceful activist within the American 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]
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- ↑ "Freedom Riders: James Lawson". PBS. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ↑ Hughes, Richard A. (2009). Pro-justice Ethics: From Lament to Nonviolence. New York: Peter Lang. p. 226. ISBN 143310525X.
- ↑ Catsam, Derek Charles (2009). Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813125111.