James Lawson
AKA: James M. Lawson Jr.Birthday: 1928-09-22
Birthplace: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
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.