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Image of a head-and-shoulders photograph of the Reverend William Holmes Borders, who served as pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1937 to 1988. In the late 1950s he led the Love, Law, and Liberation Movement to desegregate the city's bus system, and in the 1960s he arranged for the construction of a low-income housing project, Wheat Street Gardens.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civic Leaders
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African American Political Activists
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Baptists
- Borders, William Holmes, 1905
- Civic Leaders
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Clergy
- Georgia
- Political Activists
- Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)