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Nelson, William Stuart. October 15, 1895 to March 26, 1977. An internationally known expert on nonviolence, William Stuart Nelson corresponded regularly with Martin Luther King. When Nelson sent him his 1958 article “Satyagraha: Gandhian Principles of Non-Violent Non-Cooperation,” King wrote that it was “one of the best and most balanced ...
William Stuart Nelson, Activist born. William Stuart Nelson. *William Stuart Nelson was born on this date in 1895. He was a Black theologian and human rights activist. William Nelson was born in Paris, Kentucky, and graduated from Lincoln High School in Paducah, KY. He served in World War I and received his BA from Howard University in 1920.
William Stuart Nelson (1895-1977) was an expert on nonviolence, a civil rights activist, and university president. Nelson was born in Paris, Kentucky. Nelson served in the United States Army in World War I. Following the war he studied at the University of Paris and the University of Berlin before earning his BD at Yale University in 1924.
Jul 3, 2023 · Nelson, William Stuart. William S. Nelson was born in Paris, KY and grew up in Paducah, KY; his final home was in Washington, D.C. A 1920 graduate of Howard University and a 1924 divinity graduate of Yale University, he would become the first African American president of Shaw University (1931-1936) in North Carolina, saving the school from ...
Dean. 1. William Stuart Nelson (1895-1977), a native of Paris, Kentucky, received his B.A. (1920) from Howard University and his B.D. (1924) from Yale University. After teaching philosophy and religion at Howard, Nelson served as the first black president of Shaw University (1931-1936) and the first black president of Dillard University (1936 ...
William Stuart Nelson and the Interfaith Origins 61 in the noncooperative methodology. Nelson declared that “a consid-erable following” was in place among African Americans, but no one had “emerge(d) to teach the masses and lead them in the use of” non-violence. Nelson at this point had shortchanged his own influence
William Stuart Nelson and Richard Gregg, internationally known scholars of nonviolence, gave addresses, and Ella Baker, James Lawson, Will Campbell, Ralph Abernathy, and King led discussion groups. Institutes subsequently sponsored by SCLC featured activists such as Wyatt Tee Walker and Dorothy Cotton .
