- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Hosea Williams
- Date of Original:
- 1997-01-10
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Cumming
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Cumming
Clergy--Georgia--Cumming
African American clergy--Georgia--Cumming
Legislators--Georgia
African American legislators--Georgia--Cumming
Overalls--Georgia--Cumming
Roads--Georgia--Cumming
Motor vehicles--Georgia--Cumming
Men--Georgia--Cumming
African American men--Georgia--Cumming
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia
Civil rights--Georgia - People:
- Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Forsyth County, Cumming, 34.20732, -84.14019
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Civil rights activist Hosea Williams, wearing his trademark overalls and red shirt, poses in 1997 at the site of a demonstration march held ten years earlier in Forsyth County. Williams led the march to protest Ku Klux Klan activities in the area.
Photograph of civil rights activist Hosea Williams, wearing his trademark overalls and red shirt, posing in 1997 at the site of a demonstration march held ten years earlier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Williams led the march to protest Ku Klux Klan activities in the area. He stands in a field, and a highway stretches behind him. Williams, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., was a principal leader of the civil rights movement. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/hosea-williams-1926-2000/m-9498/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/hosea-williams-1926-2000
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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