- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- William Holmes Borders
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2007-12-14
- Subject:
- African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American political activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Political activists--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civic leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
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Race relations
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African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
Community life--Georgia--Atlanta
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Social justice--Georgia--Atlanta
Social justice--Religious aspects--Baptists
Equality--Georgia--Atlanta
African American police--Georgia--Atlanta
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
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Criminal justice personnel--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Officials and employees
Transportation--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation in transportation--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
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African Americans--Transportation--Georgia--Atlanta
Housing--Georgia--Atlanta
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Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Theology, Practical--Georgia--Atlanta
Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)
Politics, Practical--Georgia--Atlanta
Love, Law, and Liberation Movement (Atlanta, Ga.)
Ordinances, Municipal--Georgia--Atlanta
Wheat Street Baptist Church Credit Union (Atlanta, Ga.)
Jet, Banks, and Russell
Wheat Street Towers (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993
Hartsfield, William Berry
Borders, William Holmes, 1905-1993. Seven minutes at the mike in the Deep South - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Reverend William Holmes Borders, who between 1937 and 1988 served as pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he campaigned for civil rights and distinguished himself as a spokesperson for the city's poor and dispossessed. Born in Macon, Borders graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta and then attended Garrett Theological Seminary at Northwestern University where he received his bachelor of divinity degree in 1932 and subsequently accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois.In 1936, he earned a master's degree from Northwestern. Borders was instrumental in the hiring of Atlanta's first black police officers in the 1940s, led the campaign to desegregate the city's public transportation in the 1950s, and established the nation's first federally subsidized, church-operated rental housing project in the 1960s. Thereafter, he continued to support a variety of philanthropic causes and remained an influential public figure in Atlanta until his death in 1993.
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