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	Hosea Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 – November 16, 2000) was an United States civil rights leader, ordained reverend, and later a politician.
		He founded Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless, a non-profit foundation widely known in Atlanta for providing hot meals, haircuts, clothing, and other free services for the needy on Thanksgiving and Christmas each year.
		Williams died at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, after a three-year battle with cancer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hosea_Williams (555 words)

	Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea Williams, the son of blind African American parents, was born in Attapulgus, Georgia, on 5th January, 1926.
		Williams remained in hospital for 13 months and was permanently disabled and had to walk for the rest of his life with a stick.
		Williams was elected to Georgia General Council in 1974 and controversially endorsed Ronald Reagan for president in 1980.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhosea.htm (489 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . People . Hosea Williams \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea Williams was born in Attapulgus, Georgia, the son of blind parents.
		Williams remained in hospital for 13 months and was permanently disabled and had to walk for the rest of his life with a cane.
		Williams later said, "I lay in the hospital for eight weeks wishing that Adolf Hitler had won the war." The beating marked the beginning of his involvement in the Civil Rights movement, and after leaving hospital he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
	www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_will.html (500 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea Williams (January 5, 1926 –; November 16, 2000) was an United States civil rights leader, ordained reverend, and later a politician.
		John Lewis (on right in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (on the left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge,March 7, 1965 The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
		Both his wife and his son Hosea Williams II died prior to his own death at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, after a three-year battle with cancer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hosea-Williams (1844 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams' mother died in childbirth and he was raised by her parents Turner and Lela Williams.
		Hosea Williams left home by the age of 14, later relating that he had narrowly escaped lynching over his alleged friendship with a white girl.
		Williams and his marchers were given two minutes to disperse, but Williams, realizing a call for retreat would cause a trampling panic, dropped to his knees with Lewis and began to pray, as did his marchers.
	www.obits.com /williamshosea.html (1137 words)

	Friends remember Hosea Williams as brave, determined leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams and his associates put themselves in harm's way, it was one afternoon in Selma, Ala., "Bloody Sunday" on March 7, 1965, which shifted the course of national events at a stroke.
		Williams was put at the front of the column alongside John Lewis, who had gone to Selma on his own account; his organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had complained that the council was riding on its coattails and voted not to take part.
		Williams was born Jan. 5, 1926, in Attapulgus, Ga., the illegitimate son of a blind girl who fled a state training school when she discovered she was pregnant.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Hosea-Williams-74.htm (2589 words)

	CNN.com - Hosea Williams, civil rights leader, dies - November 16, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams was one of the leaders of the "Bloody Sunday" march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
		Williams died at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital where he was being treated for an infection since October 20, hospital spokeswoman Nina Montanaro said.
		Williams was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had a cancerous kidney removed in October 1999.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/11/16/hosea.williams (245 words)

	CBSNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea Williams joined the Army and was wounded during World War II in Europe.
		In 1965, Williams was at the head of the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Ala., when police with clubs, tear gas and dogs attacked peaceful demonstrators who sought the right to vote.
		Williams later entered politics, serving as a state representative, Atlanta city councilman and DeKalb County commissioner before retiring from politics in 1994.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/civil_rights/right_14.html (210 words)

	art00_45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We should not forget the Hosea Williams who raised himself from poverty through the power of education to become one of the first African Americans south of the Mason-Dixon Line to be hired as a federal chemist.
		Nor should we forget Hosea Williams, the good father, who gave up his hard-won middle class lifestyle for civil rights work because he could not bear to tell his young children why they could not sit at a segregated lunch counter in Savanna.
		Hosea Williams, the often-jailed street fighter for justice, survived to transform the very laws that once oppressed him.
	www.house.gov /cummings/articles/art00_45.htm (683 words)

	CNN.com - Hosea Williams, dead at 74, kept up fight for rights - November 16, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams said in interviews that he left home about age 14 because of wanderlust and local outrage at his alleged relationship with a white girl.
		Williams retired from politics in 1994, but managed to stay in the public eye through his holiday dinners for the poor, which fed thousands each year, and through '60s-style symbolic gestures, such as jailhouse fasts or camping out atop King's tomb.
		Williams' wife, Juanita Williams, died August 23 from a form of anemia at the age of 75.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/US/11/16/hosea.williams.02 (796 words)

	Remembering Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A fearless proponent of justice for all and particularly an advocate for the poor, Hosea leaves a legacy of relentless pursuit of human dignity for all God’s children." Rev. Lowery is the president of Emeritus, SCLC; chairman, Black Leadership Forum; Chair, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda.
		Hosea was diagnosed with prostrate cancer in 1997 and had a cancerous kidney removed in October 1999.
		Elizabeth Williams Omilami, who recently quit her job to take over the Hosea’s Feed the Hungry and Homeless program, remembers the stress, strain and joy of being the daughter of a civil rights leader.
	www.georgiainformer.com /hosea.html (769 words)

	Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams never lost the combative spirit that boosted him from the obscurity of a government agricultural chemist's job in Savannah to the front of the civil rights fray of the 1960s.
		Williams was born January 5, 1926, in Attapulgus, Georgia, the illegitimate son of a blind girl who fled a state training school when she discovered she was pregnant.
		His mother died while giving birth to another child and Williams was raised by his grandfather, whom he described as a tough man who had killed at least three people, one on the church steps on a Sunday morning.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits00/williams.html (293 words)

	Sojourn to the Past
		On April 4, 1968, Hosea Williams was standing beneath the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when an assassin's bullet felled Dr. King.
		Williams arranged for King's coffin to be carried in a simple mule-hauled wagon during the funeral.
		Hosea Williams was a World War II veteran, a member of the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Georgia State Assembly and the Atlanta City Council.
	www.sojournproject.org /about/press4.html (360 words)

	Hosea Williams - In His Own Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea Williams (1926-2000) was a civil rights and community leader with a long history of public service.
		The learner will examine the primary source interview of Hosea Williams focusing on the economic and social changes in African-American culture during the last 35 years, especially as it relates to the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia.
		Hosea Williams says in the video "Black people today are worse off in America than we were 35 years ago.
	www.gpb.org /public/education/toolbox/index.jsp?pcode=hosea (627 words)

	Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans -- Rev. Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hosea began his career as a "Freedom Fighter" and civil rights activist, a career that spanned nearly four decades, when he led the integration of the South's first passenger train, the Nancy Hanks, that ran from Savannah to Atlanta.
		Although he successfully appealed the firing and was rehired as a government scientists, Hosea resigned his position that same year and accepted Dr. King's ofer to become one of the top field generals of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
		Hosea is most famous for his philosophy of being "Un-BOSSED and Un- BOUGHT," which allowed him to continue his fight against injustice on political and economic fronts throughout his life.
	www.crmvet.org /mem/hosea.htm (424 words)

	Jet: Civil Rights Leader Hosea Williams Dies At 74 - Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams was diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago and had a cancerous kidney removed last year.
		Williams was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) director of field operations when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968; he was with King the day King was shot in Memphis.
		Williams was preceded in death this year by his wife, Juanita Williams, and by a son, Hosea Williams II, in 1998.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_26_98/ai_68018830 (609 words)

	Holiday Giving
		Williams lived his life serving the public that most of us only acknowledge during the holiday season.
		Williams never lost sight of his goal: to make the idealism of “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” our daily reality.
		Williams was a complex figure, and many people could not see past his struggles with alcohol.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/race_relations/54625 (520 words)

	Civil rights legend Hosea Williams
		Hosea recited a list of "Uncle Toms" in city government and the civil rights movement that had me rolling, Hosea Williams always said he was "Unbossed and Unbought, Black all the way thru and giving power to the people".
		Hosea was beaten numerous times and was almost beaten to death when he once drank from a "whites only" water fountain.
		Hosea regularly stood eyeball to eyeball and toe to toe with sheriff's and marshal's who came to evict impoverished Black people from their homes.
	www.soul-patrol.com /hosea.htm (953 words)

	Hosea Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of his pals was Hosea Williams, the giant-like firebrand lieutenant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Williams was often seen at Dr. King's shoulder in most every situation, especially those when there was opportunity for violence.
		Williams was honest, even proud, in telling me that he was a man of the streets, some would say a former thug, and that it was not easy for him to lay down his own heated impulses to harm those whites who cursed and kicked and spat on him and his friends.
	www.boomercafe.com /williams.htm (1298 words)

	CNN.com - Civil rights veterans pay tribute to Hosea Williams - November 21, 2000
		ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Hosea Williams' fellow soldiers in the civil rights movement joined his family at his funeral Tuesday, some of them honoring him by wearing his trademark denim overalls, red shirt and red sneakers.
		In 1965, Williams was at the helm of the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, when police with clubs, tear gas and dogs attacked peaceful demonstrators seeking the right to vote.
		Despite Williams' death, the dinners are scheduled to carry on, operated by daughter Elisabeth Williams-Omilami and funded by rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/11/21/hoseawims.ap (624 words)

	PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY, INC. MOURNS THE PASSING OF BRO. HOSEA WILLIAMS
		Williams, who became a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, April 27, 1950 at Morris Brown College, Atalnta, GA, was the chief organizer of King’s marches and demonstrations.
		Williams would go ahead of the others and mobilize the street people in the Black community.
		Williams was reportedly the first fl research chemist employed by the federal government in the South.
	www.exodusnews.com /NATIONAL/national071.htm (380 words)

	Smokey doesn
		Yet for all his celebrity, the Reverend Hosea Williams was a man with pure and simple goals: to feed the hungry, to stand up for the rights of all people, and to fulfill the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Williams was beaten and arrested more times than he could count, and he was by Dr. King’s side on that fateful night in Memphis.
		Hosea Williams was “unbossed and unbought,” and he took time to know those people on the outside, giving them dignity and respect.
	www.mindspring.com /~surferdan/writings/20001120.htm (703 words)

	Hosea Williams -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the early (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s he married Juanita Terry and then worked for the (The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862) USDA.
		He also became known in his later years for his erratic driving, at least once being cited for (additional info and facts about drunk driving) drunk driving.
		Both his wife and his son Hosea Williams II died prior to his own death at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, after a three-year battle with (Type genus of the family Cancridae) cancer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hosea_williams.htm (421 words)

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		Hosea Williams on November 16, 2000 brought to a close the life's work of one of America's true freedom fighters.
		For slave descendants, these are the same barriers Hosea was fighting in 1965, when fls had to pass literacy tests that asked questions like, "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?" Today, the tricks are in the ballot designs, the use of absentee ballots, registration scams and voting instructions.
		In honoring Rev. Hosea Williams, unbossed and unbought, we rededicate ourselves by redoubling our efforts to rid America and the world of racism.
	www.thedish.org /HOSEA.htm (772 words)

	Jet: Atlanta Activist Hosea Williams Recovers After Cancer Surgery - Brief Article
		Noted social activist and political leader the Rev. Hosea Williams is recuperating after surgery in Atlanta to remove a cancerous kidney.
		Williams' surgeon, Dr. James Bennett, and internist, Reginald Fowler, said at a news conference following the the 1 1/2 hour operation that they expect the 73-year-old to remain in the hospital about a week.
		Williams also is the founder of the Feed the Hungry and Homeless program, which for the past 30 years has fed thousands in the city on Thanksgiving, Christmas and recently King's birthday.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_21_97/ai_57564147 (288 words)

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