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May 14, 2024 at 5:03 PM. HOUSTON (AP) — The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King ...
Rev. William Lawson a long-time civil rights advocate and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, has died, according to an obituary posted on the church’s website. He was 95.
Fox local. Damali Keith. May 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM. HOUSTON - Known as "Houston's Pastor," Reverend William Lawson actually touched lives all across the country. Reverend Lawson's reach was far ...
James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. [1] During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Included in this project are the anniversary booklets and bulletins from Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church from the papers of Reverend William Alexander Lawson (1929- ), the founding Pastor of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church located in Houston, Texas. More than 200 of the Lawson sermon recordings, dating from 1996-2004, have already been digitized ...
The Lawson Academy. Appearance. Coordinates: 29°42′52″N. The Lawson Academy, [1] formerly WALIPP-TSU Preparatory Academy ( WALIPP Prep ), is a charter middle school in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. [2] It was established as waves of single sex public schools opened in American inner city communities circa the 2000s.
Betty Holekamp (1826–1902), German Texan pioneer, called the Betsy Ross of Texas; Sam Houston (1793–1863), first and third President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator and Governor of Texas; Anson Jones (1798–1858), last President of Republic of Texas, called "Architect of Annexation"
Yates High School. / 29.7228; -95.35467. Jack Yates Senior High School is a public high school located at 3650 Alabama Street, very near Texas Southern University, in the historic Third Ward in Houston, Texas. Yates High School handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD).