Person
James Lawson
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- September 22, 1928 · 98 years
- Origin
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
Technical Alias
James M. Lawson Jr.James Morris Lawson Jr.
Professional Trajectory
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.
