Description

View of the Reverend Hosea Williams (third from left), a civil rights activist, 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.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia