{"product_id":"james-lawson-rajmohan-gandhi-9789363365940","title":"James Lawson: Teacher of Satyagraha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Lawson\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-2024) was a key figure in the American Civil Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMovement who trained a generation of civil rights activists in the Gandhian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephilosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance. Yet his name rarely makes it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto popular retellings of the movement, especially outside the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on conversations late in Lawson's life, historian Rajmohan Gandhi \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efollows this son of a Methodist pastor from a small Ohio town, Massillon, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough college debates, prison time as a conscientious objector during the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKorean War, and into the circles of Martin Luther King Jr and Bayard Rustin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pages move back and forth between family memories, local archives and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawson's own words. A key episode in the story is Lawson's three-year stay \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Nagpur in the 1950s, where, steeped in Gandhi's ideas and friendships \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Indian and African students, he refined the methods of nonviolent \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edirect action he would later teach in Nashville. His workshops there helped \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshape the famous sit-in campaigns against racial segregation-campaigns that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espread across and helped transform the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a compelling, affectionate portrait of an extraordinary champion of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elove and justice, whose life and work have urgent lessons for our world today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story of courage without theatrics, and faith without platitudes, told by \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Mahatma's grandson-a scholar and thinker who came to it from across \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rajmohan Gandhi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9363365948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789363365940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"Rajmohan Gandhi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517216731391,"sku":"9789363365940","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_826a6525-7bfe-44cd-84d8-a029c9c6608f.jpg?v=1778730702","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/james-lawson-rajmohan-gandhi-9789363365940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}