Overview

• Thousands gathered Oct. 7 at the Church’s Conference Center for the funeral of Russell M. Nelson, who died Sept. 27 at age 101.
• NAACP figures the Rev. Amos C. Brown, the Rev. Theresa A. Dear, and the Rev. Lawrence E. Carter Sr. attended and offered public tributes.
• Brown, who once introduced Nelson as “a brother from another mother,” praised him as an agent of change committed to human dignity.
• Dear credited Nelson with inviting the NAACP to engage in 2018 and highlighted joint work such as the MyBaby4Me initiative addressing infant mortality among African American families.
• Carter, who gave Nelson the inaugural Morehouse Gandhi–King–Mandela Peace Prize in 2023, pointed to subsequent collaborations with the Tabernacle Choir and affirmed Nelson as a leader who kept his word.