Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Activism
On the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights lea…
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May 8, 2018 2018-04-07T12:08:41-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/96a/20180407121433003_hd.jpgRev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, he played a major role in the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world."
May 8, 2018 2018-04-07T12:08:41-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/96a/20180407121433003_hd.jpgRev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, he played a major role in the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world."
Rev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the… read more
Rev. Jim Lawson met Dr. King in 1955, and worked as a strategist on many campaigns of the freedom movement. While working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, he played a major role in the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination, Martin Luther King called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world." close
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