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Hosea Williams and Joe Boone at Holy Family Hospital, circa 1972

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View of the Reverend Hosea Williams (second from left) and the Reverend Joe Boone (fifth from left), civil rights activists, surrounded by nurses charging Holy Family Hospital with discriminatory practices, outside the hospital in southwest Atlanta, Georgia.Hosea Williams was a United States civil rights leader and ordained reverend. He was a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and organized and led marches in the 1960s through the 1980s. He founded Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless, a non-profit foundation in Atlanta that provides food free health services for the indigent.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Boone, Joseph E., 1922 2006
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Leaders
  7. Clergy
  8. Clothing And Dress
  9. Discrimination
  10. Georgia
  11. Holy Family Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.)
  12. Hospitals
  13. Nurses
  14. Race Discrimination
  15. Williams, Hosea, 1926 2000
  16. Women

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