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James Lawson: Gandhi, Jesus and Mom

In Oral History on 5 May 2008 tagged CORE, Gandhi, nonviolence with 3 comments

James Lawson may be the most important Civil Rights leader you’ve never heard of. He was a leading proponent and teacher of nonviolence, the idea at the heart of the movement’s strategy. He started teaching a weekly workshop on nonviolence in Nashville in 1959. From these sessions would come the Nashville Student Movement and, in […]