On this day in 1960, Vanderbilt University expelled James Lawson for taking part in a sit-in in Nashville.
On this day in 1960 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today March 3, 2024 March 3, 1960 Jackson police photograph of James Lawson after his 1961 arrest Vanderbilt University expelled James Lawson for taking part in a sit-in in Nashville. Throughout the civil rights movement, he assisted Martin Luther King Jr. in teaching the principles of nonviolence. It was a lesson Lawson learned when he was young: “I had my first racial insult hurled at me as a child.
Student Diane Nash said she didn’t think nonviolence would work, but told him that nobody else was trying to do anything about this system. The sit-ins proved successful, and a year later, Lawson and his students joined the Freedom Rides, only to be arrested again, this time in Mississippi for violating segregation laws. Rather than take them to the local jail, the Riders were hauled to the state’s notorious prison, known locally as Parchman Farm.
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