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CARPENTER CENTER. "Hobson, Montana" a photo/sociological description by John D. Williams '74, in VES 144, thru end of March...
...entitled your story describing Julius Hobson's one-man campaign against injustice and discrimination "A Last Angry Man" [Dec. 4]. Perhaps it would have been more appropriately titled "At Last! An Angry...
Then there was his Route 40 project in the early '60s, when blacks were being denied the right to eat in restaurants along the main highway leading in and out of Baltimore. Hobson vaguely proposed to close the busy route unless the restaurants were integrated. Maryland officials, already worried over racial tensions, pressured the diners into desegregating...
...Hobson grew up in segregation's heartland, Birmingham, the son of a shopkeeper and a schoolteacher. As a pilot in World War II, he flew 35 missions over Europe and won three Bronze Stars. After the war he earned an engineering degree at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and a master's degree in economics at Howard University. He then spent 20 years as a Government employee, ending up as an economist with the Social Security Administration before turning his attention full time to the problems of Washington's black community...
...Hobson has shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that...