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James Lawson
ActorBorn September 22, 1928 (96 years)
James Morris Lawson Jr. is 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.
Filmography
| 2021 | 52nd NAACP Image Awards · as Self - Honoree |
| 2020 | The Soul of America · as Self |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2018 | 1968: The Year That Changed America (TV Series) · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. · as Self |
| 2015 | The Invaders · as Self |
| 2014 | The Sixties (TV Series) · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |
| 2010 | Freedom Riders · as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council |
| 2009 | Soundtrack for a Revolution · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2005 | Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price · as Self - Pastor Emeritus Of Holman United Methodist Church |
| 1999 | A Force More Powerful · as Self |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | From Danger to Dignity · as Self - Pastor |