UCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel discussion in Pasadena in 2008 and feeling awestruck by the “majestic” manner in which the veteran ...
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Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
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Civil rights era leader dies at 95 | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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The Rev James Lawson, Martin Luther King’s right-hand man in the Civil Rights struggle – obituary
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Opinion: James Lawson and the enduring lessons of nonviolence
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We were Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle. Now, only two of us remain.
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The Reverend James Lawson Jr., Civil Rights Trailblazer, Dies at 95 - The Baltimore Times
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The Rev. James Lawson, key architect of the Civil Rights Movement, dies at 95
A key architect of the Civil Rights Movement has died. The Rev. James Lawson was a staunch advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism, even in the face of brutality. A Methodist minister and ...
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Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
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U.S. Mourns Death of Rev. James M. Lawson, `One of Our Nation's Noblest Leaders' - Los Angeles Sentinel
Tributes continued this week for the Rev. James Lawson Jr., an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the longtime pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, with President ...
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American minister, educator, and activist
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 Righ... Wikipedia