https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/lawson-obit-civil-rights-martin-luther-king-00162585
Civil rights leader James Lawson Jr. dies at 95
The pastor was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an advocate of nonviolent protest.
By Associated Press
06/10/2024 05:44 PM EDT
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., seen here in California in 2019, taught
Gandhian principles to young civil rights activists including John
Lewis and Diane Nash. | Daniel Kim/The Sacramento Bee via AP
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/james-m-lawson-jr-dr-dead.html
James M. Lawson Jr., a Top Strategist for Dr. King, Is Dead at 95
After studying Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience in India,
he joined the 1960s civil rights movement and became an architect
of it as a nonviolent struggle.
Dr. King called Mr. Lawson America’s leading theorist on nonviolence. But he was also a traveling troubleshooter in a land of night riders, where African Americans were beaten, shot, arrested and lynched. He led workshops on nonviolence for protesters, sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, picket lines and boycotts at stores that catered only to white customers, and Black voter-registration drives. He was dragged off to jail many times.