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Civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson dies in Los Angeles at age 95 – NBC Los Angeles

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights activist and close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 95 in Los Angeles. ....

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The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader's family says – Trentonian

The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died. He was 95. His family said Monday that Lawson died peacefully on Sunday. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” Lawson and King were both 28 years old when they bonded over the ideas of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. Lawson schooled civil rights activists to withstand brutal treatment from white authorities. He shaped the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to organize the sit-in movement, and he organized the sanitation workers strike that brought King to Memphis. Lawson said decades after King’s assassination that he was still anxious and frustrated because their work remains unfinished. ....

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Civil rights: James Lawson, adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., dies

He was a proponent of nonviolent protest, and his workshops helped prepare John Lewis, the Freedom Riders and many others to peacefully withstand vicious responses to their activism. ....

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Civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson dies in Los Angeles at age 95 – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., a civil rights activist and close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 95 in Los Angeles. ....

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The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95

The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died. He was 95. His family said Monday that Lawson died. ....

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