Tag Archives: Lawson Legacy: How Reverend Bill Lawson became Houston’s Pastor

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — “I wanted to be a cartoonist.” Instead, Reverend Bill Lawson became Houston’s Pastor. Three years before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Reverend Lawson secretly met with city leaders at the Rice Hotel. When all was said and done, “White Only” signs came down across Houston, department stores welcomed Black customers without …

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