Civil Rights Leader Rev. James Lawson Dies at 95

James Lawson was a close adviser to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., who referred to him as "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world". Lawson met King in 1957, after spending three years in India studying Mohandas K. Gandhi's independence movement. King urged Lawson to apply his knowledge in the American South. Lawson was a prominent civil rights activist who taught protesters against racial segregation in the US. He conducted workshops that instructed activists on how to resist violence and promote nonviolent resistance.