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UFW Demonstration at Coca-Cola

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View of activist Hosea Williams (right) and an unidentified representative of the United Farm Workers (UFW) (left) 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.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. Atlanta
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Leaders
  6. Coca Cola Company
  7. Demonstrations
  8. Flags
  9. Georgia
  10. Microphone
  11. Politicians
  12. Press
  13. Press Conferences
  14. United Farm Workers
  15. Williams, Hosea, 1926 2000

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