George Russell Lakey was born on November 2,1937 and is an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution.
13 Facts About George Lakey
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George Lakey refined the practice of experiential training for activists which he calls "Direct Education".
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George Lakey was identified as a prospective child preacher for his church, and at age 12, he gave a sermon promoting racial equality as the will of God, although his sermon was not well received at the time.
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George Lakey graduated from Cheyney University in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Oslo in Norway, where he married Berit Mathiesen in 1960 and taught at an Oslo high school.
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George Lakey continued his sociology studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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In 1970, George Lakey was active within AQAG in the successful direct action in the Puerto Rican struggle to stop the US Navy from using the island of Culebra for target practice.
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In 2009, George Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Team, to build a just and sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action campaigns.
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George Lakey's first teaching post in higher education was in the Martin Luther King Jr.
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George Lakey joined the Peace Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania, successfully expanding its undergraduate offerings and the participation of minority students.
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George Lakey taught peace studies at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
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George Lakey later taught at Temple University and much later he accepted the endowed Eugene M Lang Visiting Professorship in Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College.
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George Lakey continued at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania as a Lang Professor and then as a research professor until his retirement.
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In 2010, George Lakey was named by the National Peace and Justice Studies Association as "Peace Educator of the Year".