95: Unabridged Interview: James Lawson

***This is the special release of the unabridged interview with American Civil Rights hero Reverend James Lawson. You can find the normal shorter produced version in our podcast feed.

The American 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. He discusses America’s 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:

  • Resources mentioned this episode
  • Fellowship Of Reconciliation (F.O.R.)
  • Rev. James Lawson’s Church Holman United Methodist
  • PDF of Lee’s Interview Notes 
  • Transcription Link

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