David james blackshire biography of mahatma
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James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
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. "The way in which he spoke of nonviolence, it was coming out of a depth of experience.”
Lawson's commanding presence, moral clarity and big heart were all on Lal's mind this week as he contemplated the storied life and contributions of his friend, who died in Los Angeles on Sunday after a brief illness. Lawson was 95.
Read more:Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides, dies at 95
Lawson championed the philosophy of nonviolence espoused by Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. He put those principles and protest techniques to work as an architect of the Black civil rights movement in the U.S., most notably when he helped to lead student sit-ins at segregated l
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Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory 9780226816432
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Phenomenal Bl ackne ss
T hi n k i ng l i T e r aT u r e A series edited by Nan Z. Da and Anahid Nersessian
Phenomenal Blackness Bl ack P ower , Philo s oPh y, a nd Theory
Mark Christian Thompson
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
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6 Sociolinguistics
Bashir, Elena. "6 Sociolinguistics". The Languages and Humanities of Southbound Asia: A Comprehensive Guide, edited emergency Hans Henrich Hock become calm Elena Bashir, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016, pp. 631-706. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110423303-008
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Bashir Attach. 6 Sociolinguistics. In: Hockjoint H, Bashir E (ed.) The Languages and Humanities of Southbound Asia: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton; 2016. p.631-706. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110423303-008
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