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Photograph of civil rights activist Hosea Williams, wearing his trademark overalls and red shirt, posing in 1997 at the site of a demonstration march held ten years earlier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Williams led the march to protest Ku Klux Klan activities in the area. He stands in a field, and a highway stretches behind him. Williams, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., was a principal leader of the civil rights movement.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Legislators
  4. African American Men
  5. African Americans
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Clergy
  9. Cumming
  10. Georgia
  11. Legislators
  12. Men
  13. Motor Vehicles
  14. Overalls
  15. Roads
  16. Williams, Hosea, 1926 2000

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