FILE - Actor Ed Asner, right, along with the Rev. Don Brown, left, and the Rev. James Lawson, center, walk to the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. carrying petitions calling for a "time out" of the death penalty, Wednesday, May 1, 2002. Lawson, an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the civil rights movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday, June 10, 2024. He was 95. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)