The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader’s family says
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Sept. 17, 2015. 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. He was 95. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo file)
Lawson organized the sanitation workers strike that fatefully drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. Lawson said he was at first paralyzed and forever saddened by King’s assassination.
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