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Also Known As James Morrison Lawson, Jr.
Born September 22, 1928 • Uniontown • Pennsylvania
Died June 9, 2024 (aged 95) • Los Angeles • California
Role In American civil rights movement • Freedom Rides • Memphis sanitation workers’ strike

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National Guard troops with rifles block Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing signs reading I AM A MAN walk past during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike.
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