Activist Who Invited King to Memphis to Speak at Breakfast

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[James Morris Lawson Jr.] is well-known for teaching peaceful civil disobedience to students from Fisk, American Baptist and Tennessee A&I universities who integrated the lunch counters of Nashville. Among those who received his tutelage and became Freedom Riders in the Deep.South were John Lewis, who became a congressman from Georgia; Marion Barry, who would become mayor of Washington; and Stokely Carmichael, who later promoted Black Power and rejected nonviolence. Much of their story is detailed in "The Children" by David Halberstam.

[E. Gordon Gee], as reported in the New York Times on Oct. 4, 2006, called the expulsion "a defining moment for Vanderbilt, forcing it to decide whether to modernize or 'remain in amber.'"

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Activist Who Invited King to Memphis to Speak at Breakfast

The world will long remember the pacifism of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but he dubbed another civil rights activist "the leading nonviolence ...

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