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Civil Rights Leader Honored at Aquarium of the Pacific
Published on: February 25, 2013
By C. MacDonald
Long Beach, CA–Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., a pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement and a teacher of non-violent activism, was honored with the Heritage Award during the 11th Annual African American Festival at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
“What Dr. Lawson did, helped and still helps all races,” said Aquarium Vice President/CFO Anthony Brown on presenting the award. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called him the greatest teacher of non-violence in America.”
King, who had met Lawson at the Oberlin School of Theology, urged him to come to the south and take an active role in the National Civil Rights Movement…read more>
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