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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Hosea Williams and Joe Boone 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
Women--1970-1980
Clothing and dress--1970-1980
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Boone, Joseph E., 1922-2006
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 (second from left) and the Reverend Joe Boone (fifth from left), civil rights activists, 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 101.424.009
ahc101424009.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1445
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1445/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: