The Rev. Leslie Lawson, friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, retired after 23 years of service at York's Small Memorial AME Zion Church in 1992. Background posts: Mildred and Russell Chapman, Part I, Roy Borom, Part II, Gladys Rawlins, Part III.
The Rev. Leslie Lawson was jailed with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1962.
When reaching York in 1969, he immediately acted as a peacemaker during the race riots that summer.
"He invested his talents in the marketplace of human needs," a bishop said in eulogizing Lawson at the pastor's funeral in 1998... .
Continue reading Leslie Lawson, 'Black History Profiles,' Part IIII.
