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...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...
From a strictly rational viewpoint, which may be a dangerous and misleading way of looking at it, Bethel was a neatly symbolic choice for the festival?the Biblical town of that name was a center of idolatry denounced by the prophets Amos and Hosea. To many adults, the festival was a squalid freakout, a monstrous Dionysian revel, where a mob of crazies gathered to drop acid and groove to hours of amplified cacophony. In a classic example of its good gray mannerisms, the New York Times in an editorial compared the Bethel pilgrimage to a march of lemmings toward...
...basketball, sixth-place Leverett House dealt Winthrop one of its two losses last Friday in a hoop thriller, 47-46. Steve Hosea sank a free throw with two seconds left to give Leverett...
Sophomore quarterback Steve Manion and end Steve Hosea sparked Leverett's powerful offense as the undefeated Bunnies routed Adams, 38-18. Dunster remained one game behind as Tom Burkhard and Bo Bohannon led the way to a 28-0 blanking of Adams and a 28-18 win over Lowell...