Rev. James Lawson protests racial apartheid on March 15, 1978, in front of Rand Dining Center at Vanderbilt.
By now he was a minister at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, but he periodically returned to campus. The 1978 “speak out” event against the Davis Cup tennis matches at Vanderbilt, which included a team from South Africa, drew more than 100 faculty members from seven Nashville colleges and universities. (Nancy Warnecke/The Tennessean)