Bolden, Willie, 1938-
Biography:
Rev. Willie Bolden, b. Dec. 7, 1938 Sumter, South Carolina, son of Charles Bolden and Sadie Mae Bolden. Graduated from high school in Savannah, Georgia, where he met Martin Luther King in 1961 and became involved with the SCLC in Savannah, in St. Augustine in 1964, in Atlanta, and in Marion, Alabama. "Wagon Master" for the Mule Train on the Poor People's Campaign. Earned an MA in education from Harvard in 1972. Worked with the labor movement from 1973-1979. Director of personnel with the Atlanta Public Library until 1983.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Voices Across The Color Line Oral History Collection, 2005-2006 (Atlanta History Center)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of the state of community race relations including civil rights demonstrations, a funeral procession, and interviews in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African Americans demonstrating against segregation and reporter Tom Brokaw interviewing mayor T. Griffin Walker in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July 29 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Lester Maddox speaking to a white audience, African Americans protest segregation, and newsman Tom Brokaw interviews mayor T. Griffin Walker in Americus, Georgia, 1965 July 29 (Moving images)