Opinion: James Lawson and how ‘the Civil Rights Movement will have to become revolutionary’
Rev. James Lawson listens to speakers during a multicultural Memphis Cares event at St John's United Methodist Church on April 7, 2019. (The Daily Memphian file)
Aram Goudsouzian
Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis and author of numerous books on race, politics and culture. He serves on the Board of Directors at the National Civil Rights Museum.
“With an iron-grip commitment to nonviolence, Lawson called for campaigns of civil disobedience that pressed the demands of the larger Black community.”
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