The Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95; civil rights leader was adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

Lawson earned that theology degree at Boston University and became a Methodist pastor in Memphis, where wife Dorothy Wood Lawson worked as an NAACP organizer. They moved several years later to Los Angeles, where Lawson led the Holman United Methodist Church and taught at Cal State Northridge and UCLA. They raised three sons, John, Morris and Seth.