{"id":11120,"date":"2013-02-25T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2013-02-25T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T08:34:28","slug":"civil-rights-leader-honored-at-aquarium-of-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/civil-rights-leader-honored-at-aquarium-of-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Leader Honored at Aquarium of the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aqpaw.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, CA&#8211;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Dr. Lawson did, helped and still helps all races,&#8221; said Aquarium Vice President\/CFO Anthony Brown on presenting the award. &#8220;Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called him the greatest teacher of non-violence in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/james-lawson.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Long Beach, CA&#8211;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. &#8220;What Dr. Lawson did, helped and still helps all races,&#8221; said Aquarium Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}