Rev. James Lawson, made Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial barriers, has died

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : He taught them not only the lofty principles of passive resistance but fundamental tactics, including how to withstand taunts and physical attacks, avoid breaking loitering laws, "even how to dress" for a sit-in, historian Taylor Branch wrote, which meant "stockings and heels for the women, coats and ties for the fellows.
46% : "I knew that if Martin were alive and in my position, he would have married them even if he knew Ray was guilty.
45% : Lawson, who for decades worked as a pastor, labor movement organizer and university professor, died Sunday of cardiac arrest en route to a Los Angeles hospital, his son J. Morris Lawson III told the Washington Post.

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