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The film chronicles Lawson's training sessions during the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s. [37] Lawson was the subject of the film Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers Rights by Michael K. Honey. The film is an introduction to Lawson's contributions to labor rights struggles and the civil ...
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Francis Guess – Nashville businessman and member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1983–1989) [53] James Lawson – civil rights leader and Methodist minister; John Lewis - civil rights leader and Congressman from Georgia's 5th Congressional District; Z. Alexander Looby – lawyer active in the American Civil Rights Movement
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era.
Nashville Sit-ins Archived April 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Tennessee4me.org maintained by the Tennessee State Museum; American Experience – Eyes on the Prize: "Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960–1961)", pbs.org; Nashville Student Movement (1960–1964), Civil Rights Movement Archive, crmvet.org
Robert J. Booker, Knoxville's esteemed and legendary historian and civil rights leader, was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree from the University of Tennessee on Feb. 10.
The civil rights movement in Tennessee: A narrative history (U. of Tennessee Press, 2005) online. Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee: 1780-1930 (University of Arkansas Press, 1999) online. Patterson, C. Perry. The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865; a study in southern politics (1922) online; PHILLIPS, PAUL DAVID.
Civil rights activist Diane Nash was a 21-year-old college student when she began attending Lawson's Nashville workshops, which she called life-changing. “His passing constitutes a very great ...