- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Hosea Williams at Holy Family Hospital, circa 1972
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1972
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Hospitals--Georgia--Atlanta
Nurses--Georgia--Atlanta
Race discrimination
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Holy Family Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the Reverend Hosea Williams (third from left), a civil rights activist, surrounded by nurses charging Holy Family Hospital with discriminatory practices, outside the hospital in southwest Atlanta, Georgia.
Hosea Williams was a United States civil rights leader and ordained reverend. He was a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and organized and led marches in the 1960s through the 1980s. He founded Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless, a non-profit foundation in Atlanta that provides food free health services for the indigent. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.424.005
ahc101424005.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1441
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1441/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
