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Synopsis
Throughout his rich life, Rev. Lawson worked to dismantle racial, social, and economic injustice. Dr. King called Rev. Lawson, “the leading strategist and theorist of nonviolence in the world.” This vital, first-person account portrays Rev. Lawson engaged in galvanizing and often harrowing campaigns of nonviolent direct action—a radical, disciplined, far-reaching method of redemptive revolution centered in love and moral clarity.
Rev. Lawson's story spans his more than nine decades, as well as his abolitionist heritage. While in college, he served prison time for resisting the Korean War daft. Later, he traveled to India and Africa, where he immersed himself in Gandhi’s philosophy and tactics and met with emerging African independence leaders. In 1957, Dr. King urged Lawson to “come South now,” and a historic solidarity was born.
Rev. Lawson was vital to desegregating downtown Nashville in the early 1960s. He trained the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless other civil rights foot soldiers. He co-led the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Throughout his life he stood up to two particularly pervasive forms of violence in the United States: police brutality and what he called plantation capitalism. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he continued the quest for economic and racial equity, and for women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Well into the twenty-first century, he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement.
Rev. Lawson practiced what he preached, always recognizing and respecting the inherent dignity of every human being—even those who opposed him. Nonviolent is at once a riveting historical narrative from an architect of one of the most influential and inspiring global liberation movements, and an ode to what it means to compel a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all.
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About the Author
Rev. James Lawson Jr. was a pastor who was integral to the Civil Rights Movement and a key figure in ongoing campaigns for labor, gender, and immigrant rights. He introduced the tactical, philosophical, and spiritual facets of nonviolence to generations of activists, and inspired countless people worldwide to join in creating the beloved community.
Emily Yellin is a journalist, writer, and producer. A longtime contributor to The New York Times and author of two other books, she produced a ten-part video series, 1,300 Men: Memphis Strike '68, for The Root. She first met Rev. Lawson when she was five, while attending elementary school in Memphis with his eldest son, John."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. "This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much."-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life Rev. Lawson was one of the most influential yet unheralded heroes of the civil rights era. He rose as a strategist, teacher, and organizer in pivotal campaigns on the national stage against racial and economic injustice. Lawson's memoir spans 95 years, but it begins far from the spotlight in a large, working-class Ohio family. The son and grandson of Methodist ministers, he receives his license to preach before graduating from high school. Lawson goes on to serve time in prison for refusing the Korean War draft, and learns from independence movements during three years in India and Africa. He then fortifies the principles of a new American Revolution when he teaches nonviolent direct action centered in love and moral clarity to the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless others. He also becomes a leader in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Nonviolent delivers an intimate self-portrait of Lawson as a man who recognized the inherent dignity of everyone, and challenged all forms of violence, including police brutality, enforced poverty, and what he called plantation capitalism. It shows his quest for justice continuing in Los Angeles well into the 21st century, as he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement. Nonviolent is a riveting historical narrative from a central figure in global liberation and a testament to compelling a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all. Seller Inventory # CIN0593596242A
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Hardback. Condition: Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. "This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much."-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life Rev. Lawson was one of the most influential yet unheralded heroes of the civil rights era. He rose as a strategist, teacher, and organizer in pivotal campaigns on the national stage against racial and economic injustice. Lawson's memoir spans 95 years, but it begins far from the spotlight in a large, working-class Ohio family. The son and grandson of Methodist ministers, he receives his license to preach before graduating from high school. Lawson goes on to serve time in prison for refusing the Korean War draft, and learns from independence movements during three years in India and Africa. He then fortifies the principles of a new American Revolution when he teaches nonviolent direct action centered in love and moral clarity to the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless others. He also becomes a leader in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Nonviolent delivers an intimate self-portrait of Lawson as a man who recognized the inherent dignity of everyone, and challenged all forms of violence, including police brutality, enforced poverty, and what he called plantation capitalism. It shows his quest for justice continuing in Los Angeles well into the 21st century, as he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement. Nonviolent is a riveting historical narrative from a central figure in global liberation and a testament to compelling a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all. Seller Inventory # CIN0593596242G
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Hardback. Condition: Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. "This book is a gift to be treasured, from a man who has already given so much."-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life Rev. Lawson was one of the most influential yet unheralded heroes of the civil rights era. He rose as a strategist, teacher, and organizer in pivotal campaigns on the national stage against racial and economic injustice. Lawson's memoir spans 95 years, but it begins far from the spotlight in a large, working-class Ohio family. The son and grandson of Methodist ministers, he receives his license to preach before graduating from high school. Lawson goes on to serve time in prison for refusing the Korean War draft, and learns from independence movements during three years in India and Africa. He then fortifies the principles of a new American Revolution when he teaches nonviolent direct action centered in love and moral clarity to the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless others. He also becomes a leader in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Nonviolent delivers an intimate self-portrait of Lawson as a man who recognized the inherent dignity of everyone, and challenged all forms of violence, including police brutality, enforced poverty, and what he called plantation capitalism. It shows his quest for justice continuing in Los Angeles well into the 21st century, as he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement. Nonviolent is a riveting historical narrative from a central figure in global liberation and a testament to compelling a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all. Seller Inventory # CIN0593596242G
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