"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.

(WSMV) - Since 1959, Hillwood High School ... the marquee public school in the state of Tennessee,” Mitchell said. The facility is named after Civil Rights leader James Lawson and construction ...

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 ...

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 ...