- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Hosea Williams
- Date of Original:
- 1996-11-15
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Volunteers--Georgia--Atlanta
Charities--Georgia--Atlanta
Poor--Services for--Georgia--Atlanta
T-shirts--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Hosea Williams folds T-shirts in 1996 for his Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless program. The program, founded by Williams in Atlanta in 1971, provides food, health care, and clothing to thousands in the Atlanta area each year.
Photograph of Hosea Williams folding t-shirts in 1996 for his Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless program. He stands in a room with stacks of boxes behind him. The t-shirt he folds reads "I helped Hosea feed the hungry." The program, founded by Williams in Atlanta, Georgia in 1971, provides food, health care, and clothing to thousands in the Atlanta area each year.
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-9500/
- 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: