James Lawson

long-time civil rights leader

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Long-time civil rights leader and former President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1960-1967); former pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, California; former Distinguished Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. But Southern California was another active center of the civil rights movement.

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