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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