A UCLA professor says James Lawson's devotion to Gandhi's teachings on nonviolence and love shaped his life of activism.
UCLA historian Vinay Lal remembers speaking alongside the Rev. James Lawson during a panel discussion in Pasadena in 2008 and feeling awestruck by the 'majestic' manner in which the veteran civil rights leader spoke about the power of nonviolence and its ability to change the course of history. 'He had a booming voice, very confident, but the amazing thing was that that confidence always came with compassion at the same time,' said Lal.
In Lal's digital archives are hundreds of clippings from the Black press about India's independence movement, as well as glowing assessments of the loin-clothed activist and essays urging Black Americans to find their own 'Negro Gandhi.' An article from 1922 in L.A.'s California Eagle newspaper calls for establishing 'Gandhi Day.
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