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That night Rev. Lawson delivered the keynote address to the public at Portland State University, beginning five days of the 6th James Lawson Institute, organized by peace scholar and former SNCC Communications Co-Director (with Julian Bond) Mary E. King. On July 28, 2023, James Lawson High School opened in Nashville, Tennessee.
James Lawson (minister) (1538–1584) Church of Scotland biographer of John Knox; James Lawson Drummond (1783–1853), Irish physician, naturalist and botanical writer; James Gilchrist Lawson (1874–1946), British Christian author and compiler; James R. Lawson (1918–1985), American anti-Imperialist activist and black nationalist writer
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 ...
The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became ...
Accepting the award in 2004, Rev. James Lawson said: "You can resolve the war in your own life. You can resolve the war in your community, your congregation. You can heal the war in our nation. We can make war a relic of a dead past that need never again threaten the well-being and the security of the human race."
James Morris Lawson Jr., was born on Sept. 22, 1928, the son and grandson of ministers, and grew up in Massillon, Ohio, where he became ordained himself as a high school senior.
The Rev. James M. Lawson, the civil rights icon who inspired generations of nonviolent activists and who brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in support of the 1968 sanitation workers ...
James Morris Lawson Jr., was born on Sept. 22, 1928, the son and grandson of ministers, and grew up in Massillon, Ohio, where he became ordained himself as a high school senior. He told The Tennessean that his commitment to nonviolence began in elementary school, when he told his mother that he had slapped a boy who had used a racial slur ...