a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw discrimination in the U.S., died at 95 on Sunday, his family said.
When Lawson returned to the U.S., he became a leading advocate of nonviolent protest as a strategy for the emerging U.S. civil rights movement. Lawson later served as a mentor for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, made up of mostly Black college students participating in nonviolent protests in support of racial integration.
Lawson also played a key role in the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee. It was at Lawson’s request that King came to Memphis, where he was assassinated in 1968.
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