Martin Luther King Jr. called civil rights pioneer, the Rev. James Lawson, the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.
The Rev. James Lawson, an architect of the civil rights movement who preached nonviolent protest, has died. He's shown here speaking to union workers on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 2011.
The idea was to build on what King, Rosa Parks and others had achieved in Montgomery, and grow what Lawson considered to be a Black freedom movement with staying power. In a 1998 interview with NPR, Georgia Congressman John Lewis recalled his early embrace of the movement as a student in Nashville. Lawson decried the riots and violence that broke out after King’s killing. He said the assassination sapped both momentum for change, and support for nonviolent resistance.
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