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Renowned Civil Rights Fighter to Help Celebrate Gandhi’s Birthday
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
30 Sep 2019
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Rev James Lawson, a confidant and comrade of Dr Martin Luther King and longtime student of non-violent social activism, will speak at the 150th anniversary of Muhatma Gandhi’s birth at the Philadelphia Free School, October 3. Rev Lawson was Dr. King’s “coach” on Gandhian non-violence and invited MLK to Memphis, where he was assassinated while supporting striking garbage workers, said Free School organizer Jahan Choudry.

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