
James Lawson
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 96 |
Date of birth | September 22,1928 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Uniontown |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Residence | Nashville |
Tennessee | |
United States | |
Known for | Mahatma Gandhi |
Civil Rights | |
Nashville sit-ins | |
Job | Professor |
Writer | |
Activist | |
Academic | |
Education | Boston University School of Theology |
Oberlin College | |
Baldwin Wallace University | |
Vanderbilt University Divinity School | |
Spouse | Dorothy Wood |
Awards | NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award |
Full name | James Morris Lawson Jr. |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 481204 |
James Lawson Life story
James Morris Lawson Jr. is 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.