Word: hosea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stack of legal pads on a clipboard cradled in her other arm. Earlier that August morning she had been sitting in her mother's kitchen in Birmingham, Alabama. Within 48 hours, she would be asleep in Moscow, perhaps dreaming of airports or roses. Inside the Atlanta terminal Hosea Williams pointed out the window at the deboarded passengers. "It's her," he said...
...attorney, Howard Moore, Hosea Williams and several other SCLC staffers were there to meet her. They had been waiting for more than two hours, because the airline had lost the tickets the travel-agency had booked for her and her two travelling companions several weeks before. But, they had not waited alone. Several local reporters, as well as the guy from the newsmagazine had waited with them. There was also a little black man in a dapperly cut brown sult, wearing a Tyrolean hat and carrying a camera with a long zoom list. The little men was an intelligence detective...
Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...
...With Hosea Williams at the lead they walked quickly to the main terminal. There, they waited a few minutes while Hosea called the church to tell them that Angela had arrived. While Angela was waiting for Hosea to return, she was suddenly swarmed on by three teen-age girls, two blacks and one white. The girls had an Instamatic, and begged Angela to pose with them for a picture. Smiling for them each time with the same slightly shy authenticity, she posed with her arms around them like a big sister, as if she was proud to be in every...
...Hosea Williams, program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, hoped to boost the morale of the demonstrators by calling on them to "adopt the spirit of the Chinese people." Williams, who recently returned from a trip to People's Republic of China, said concerning President's Nixon's proposed trip to China. "Nixon will not be able to trick the Chinese people the way that he has tricked the American people...