# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-lawson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:24:17.845Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-lawson"
name: "James Lawson"
slug: "james-lawson"
description: "James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years."
tagline: "American activist (1928–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jameslawson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-09-22"
deathDate: "2024-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.926174666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson"
    title: "James Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس لاوسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson"
    title: "James Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson_(activist)"
    title: "James Lawson (activist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson"
    title: "James Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson"
    title: "James Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز لاوسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson_(militant)"
    title: "James Lawson (militant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawson"
    title: "James Lawson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6137869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump