Ethan Vesely-Flad spent 18 years on staff with the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA where he served as national organizer, interim co-executive director, and other positions. He is currently a consultant with FOR and the managing editor of Fellowship Magazine.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called him “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” To Rep. John Lewis , he was “the architect of the nonviolence movement.” Jesse Jackson simply called him “the Teacher.” We at the Fellowship of Reconciliation are blessed to have counted him among our core team of organizers. It is with reverence that we remember his life and time with us. Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.
King insisted to Lawson that his expertise was needed, not eventually, but immediately! “I mentioned to that while in college I had long wanted to work in the South – especially because of segregation – as a place of work, and that I wanted to do that still,” Lawson told Fellowship magazine editor Richard Deats in 1999. “His response was: ‘Come now! Don’t wait! Don’t put it off too long. We need you NOW!” When Lawson told A.J.
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