ABSTRACT
Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. (1928–) is widely recognized as a pioneer of nonviolence in the American Civil Rights Movement. Lawson is a living icon embodying the power of nonviolence in securing justice and peace. His work has been highlighted in the book and documentary A Force More Powerful (Ackerman and Duvall 2000), which shows Lawson’s strategic workshops to train students to confront segregation in lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1960s. 1 This successful movement became a paradigm for nonviolent activism.
