- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Hosea Williams
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1970/1980
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Politicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Flags
Microphone
Press conferences
Press--Georgia--Atlanta
Crosses
Coca-Cola Company
United Farm Workers
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of activist and civil rights leader Hosea Williams speaking to the press at a demonstration, outside of Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, trying to persuade the company into signing a contract with the United Farm Workers (UFW) for its agricultural harvests in California.
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 101.358.005
ahc101358005.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/902
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:902/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:
-
