James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. [1]

Jun 11, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.

Jun 10, 2024 · The Rev. James Lawson, an architect of the Civil Rights Movement who preached nonviolent protest, has died. He's shown here speaking to union workers in 2011 on the anniversary of Dr. Martin ...

James Lawson was an American minister who trained a generation of civil rights activists in the Gandhian tactics of nonviolent direct action. Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to Lawson as ‘the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.’

Jun 10, 2024 · As a minister who trained many activists in nonviolent resistance, James Lawson made a critical contribution to the civil rights movement.

Jun 11, 2024 · James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter...

Jun 10, 2009 · A supporter of the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent protest, the Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. was one of the Civil Rights Movement’s leading theoreticians and tacticians in the African American struggle for freedom and equality in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jun 10, 2024 · The Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights icon who trained activists in nonviolent protest, died Sunday, according to the pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, where Lawson...

Jun 10, 2024 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. — James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement and helped organize the push to desegregate lunch...