James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 10, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.
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22 September 1928 Uniontown, Pennsylvania
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Died |
10 June 2024 (aged 95)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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