"It will really be a mecca, a destination for the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area to ... of construction visit Hillwood High School's website or James Lawson High School's website created ...

Nashville's newest high school, replacing the current Hillwood High School at a new location, will be named after one of the city's iconic civil rights advocates, the Rev. James Lawson.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The first day for Metro Nashville Public Schools began with a new era for students at James Lawson High School. On Tuesday, 1,200 students started their first day of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - James Lawson High ... for Tennessee,” Lilly said. “I think that having this first class that comes through Lawson and set the foundation for this school, I think ...

In 1957, King urged Lawson to move to Nashville to teach Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience philosophy and techniques to students at historically Black colleges, including American Baptist ...

James Lawson High School is situated at a historic junction of commerce, where railways and roads converged along the Harpeth River to carry eastward the raw materials—including Tennessee ...

Cam Shields understands that James Lawson High School was an expensive project. Metro Nashville’s newest public school came with a $124 million price tag. The senior running back repaid what he ...

Among the photos lining the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library downtown is one of a young James ... model Lawson used. Metro Nashville Public Schools’ new high school in Bellevue ...