Edward C. Lawson is an African American civil rights activist, who was the plaintiff in the case of Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983), in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a California statute authorizing a police officer to arrest a person for refusing to present identification was unconstitutionally vague.
Read more about Edward C. Lawson: Civil Rights Case, 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, Southern California