Houston Public MediaMay 16, 2024

Houston is mourning the death of Rev. William Lawson, a local civil rights leader and the founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in the Third Ward. Community remembrances at the church begin next Tuesday.

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Community remembrances planned for Houston civil rights leader Rev. William Lawson

The current pastor at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in the Third Ward reflected Wednesday on the life of the church's founder, who died Tuesday at age 95.

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Houston Public MediaMay 14, 2024

Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, the founding pastor at Houston’s Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and a local civil rights leader, died Tuesday at age 95.

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Rev. William Lawson, Houston civil rights leader and Third Ward church pastor, dies at 95

Along with serving as a spiritual guide in a predominantly Black neighborhood south of downtown, Lawson also advocated for desegregation and was an academic professor.

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