Reverend Bill Lawson, a civil rights icon and the founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Third Ward, died Tuesday morning at the age of 95.to their founding pastor online. "He has completed his time of service here on earth and is now enjoying eternal rest."Over the course of seven decades, Rev. Lawson helped shape Houston into what it is today, coming from Kansas City in 1955 to work at Texas Southern University.
"'Honey, you cannot have a church with just preaching and singing. You're going to have to reach out into the neighborhood and somehow be involved with the problems of people in the neighborhoods.' So I thought of this new church as being a church that was going to be both religion and social movement," Rev. Lawson said.The children grew up in a house that saw visits from other civil rights icons, including Martin Luther King Jr.
"I chose to stay here because of the people who had started out as 13, and who, by the time, were probably several hundred," Rev. Lawson previously told KTRK.
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