May 2008

by Nicholas Pace

Civil rights leader James M. Lawson, Jr. will visit the Olympia community on May 2-5. Professor, Methodist minister, civil rights leader, sit-in organizer; and advisor to World Council of Churches, James Lawson has accomplished a great deal in his 80 years. Involved with the civil rights movement since its beginnings in the fifties, Lawson’s close friend Dr. Martin Luther Jr. once called him the “…the leading nonviolence theorist in the world.” Currently he is a professor of Vanderbilt University, and is now 80. Although you may not have read about him in your high school . . .