Word: hosea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SCLC National Program Director Hosea Williams led the group in singing and chanting as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and circled the Justice Department twice...
...votingage Negroes-were registered. Now there are 4,000 blacks registered, enough to put them in command of the local elections next November. The veteran white sheriff, Bill Lee, is so worried that he has publicly embraced S.C.L.C. President Ralph Abernathy and posed for pictures with S.C.L.C. Leader Hosea Williams, who showed him how to give the "soul power" clenched-fist salute. The sheriff needs, he says, "about 1,000 nigger votes" to win. In Tuskegee, Ala., blacks now control elections, and white politicians are asking blacks to work with, rather than against, them. "Until blacks got the majority vote...
Seven years ago, Hosea Williams, the son of a Georgia dirt farmer, gave up a $14,000-a-year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events...