James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter ...

A Methodist minister, he was a principal tactician behind the sit-ins, marches and Freedom Rides that withstood attacks by mobs and police throughout the 1960s. The Rev. James M. Lawson, a United ...

Fifty years ago, America was struggling to implement the ideals of justice and equality set forth in our founding. The Freedom Rides, organized in the spring of 1961, were an interracial, nonviolent ...

In the 1960s, a wave of non-violent resistance surged across the United States as college students took a stand for civil rights, famously engaging in what they called “good trouble.” From arrests and ...

As one of the “Greensboro Four,” he helped kick off the sit-in movement with his 1960 protest at a segregated lunch counter.

How a simple act of grass-roots disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the social landscape of the American South On Feb. 1, 1960, at around 4:30 p.m., four black students from ...

The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the ...