Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Freedom Riders and Lessons for Today


Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

Audio Document


The Freedom Riders and Lessons for Today
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The Rev. Dr. James Lawson , helped coordinate the Freedom
Rides in 1961, the Meredith March in 1966, & while working as a pastor
at the Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, played a major role in
the sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of his assassination,
Martin Luther King called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of
nonviolence in the world and (complete page)

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