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Rev. James Lawson

Academic, civil rights leader and leading advocate for nonviolence.

StoryJul 31, 2020

Rev. James Lawson: John Lewis’s Life Is Call to Action Against U.S. Violence & Plantation Capitalism

StoryApr 03, 2018

MLK’s Final Days: The Rev. James Lawson Remembers King’s Assassination & Support for Memphis Strike

StoryApr 03, 2018

He Gave His Life in the Labor Struggle: MLK’s Forgotten Radical Message for Economic Justice

Web ExclusiveApr 03, 2018

Web Bonus: Rev. James Lawson & Michael Honey on MLK’s Vision of Worker Solidarity & Economic Justice

StoryAug 06, 2015

On Hiroshima Anniv. Peacemakers March on Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab, Birthplace of Atomic Bomb

StoryApr 04, 2003

The United States is “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today”: We Hear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech Against the Vietnam War On the 35th Anniversary of His Assassination

StoryDec 10, 2002

Hundreds of Church Leaders to March on the United Nations to Call for Peace: We Talk to Civil Rights Leader and Martin Luther King’s Mentor Reverend James Lawson

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