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Rev. James Lawson, civil rights icon, dies at 95

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Rev. James Lawson, the civil rights leader who studied non-violent protest under Gandi and then worked along Martin Luther King Jr., has died at 95. In what was his final speech, King praised Lawson, calling him one of the “noble men” of the Black freedom struggle. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

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