Lawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Armstrong Williams takes on the news of the week and asks the questions you want answered. Don't miss our weekly town hall.FILE - Rev. James Lawson, Civil Rights era activist and 1961 Freedom Rider gestures during a labor rally Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003 in Oakland Park, Fla. Lawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday, June 10, 2024.
The two Black pastors -- both 28 years old -- quickly bonded over their enthusiasm for the Indian leader’s ideas, and King urged Lawson to put them into action in the American South. Gandhi said “that we persons have the power to resist the racism in our own lives and souls,” Lawson told the AP. “We have the power to make choices and to say no to that wrong. That’s also Jesus.”
“His passing constitutes a very great loss,” Nash said. “He bears, I think, more responsibility than any other single person for the civil rights movement of Blacks being nonviolent in this country.” Lawson was a divinity student at Oberlin College in Ohio when King spoke on campus about the Montgomery bus boycott. King told him, “You can’t wait, you need to come on South now,‘” Lawson recalled in an Associated Press interview.
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