James Morris Lawson Jr. was 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. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years.
- Occupation
- university teacher, pastor, human rights defender, missionary
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 22, 1928
- Died
- June 9, 2024
