The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. lived long enough to preach at the funerals of several of the American leaders he had mentored ...

A memorial service was held Saturday at the Holman United Methodist Church for Reverend James Lawson Jr., a civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles ...

Two months. Another civil rights icon, the Rev. James Lawson, who spent his formative years in Nashville leading the Student Movement and getting kicked out of Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1960 ...

A student at Fisk University in Nashville, Diane Nash became the leader of the Nashville Student Movement. Fellow activists John Lewis, Ernest "Rip" Patton, Jr., Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., and ...