138: Unabridged Interview: James Lawson
This is our unabridged interview with James Lawson.
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
Transcript for Abridged Episode
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