138: James Lawson: The Architect of the United States Civil Rights Movement (Best of NSE)
The US Civil Rights Movement, like Gandhi's Indian Independence Movement, was famously set apart by its employment of non-violent resistance methods. But have you ever wondered how such a movement was possible on so large a scale?
In this episode, we are honored to have the man who Martin Luther King Jr. called friend, mentor, and the very conscience and architect of the Civil Rights Movement: Reverend James Lawson.
Now in his 90’s, he discusses the United States’ past and present, and what it took to organize a whole population across the country to fight back without throwing a punch.
“We started the public desegregation of the nation,” he says, “and we did it without hating anybody.”
Show Notes
Similar episodes:
Eddie Glaude: On James Baldwin’s America
Dr. Fred Gray: Doing Justice Alongside MLK and Rosa Parks
Martin Sheen: Actor and Activist
Resources mentioned this episode:
Fellowship Of Reconciliation (F.O.R.)
Rev. James Lawson’s Church: Holman United Methodist
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