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William Holmes Borders

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Hatfield, Edward A

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Encyclopedia article about the Reverend William Holmes Borders, who between 1937 and 1988 served as pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he campaigned for civil rights and distinguished himself as a spokesperson for the city's poor and dispossessed. Born in Macon, Borders graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta and then attended Garrett Theological Seminary at Northwestern University where he received his bachelor of divinity degree in 1932 and subsequently accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois. In 1936, he earned a master's degree from Northwestern. Borders was instrumental in the hiring of Atlanta's first black police officers in the 1940s, led the campaign to desegregate the city's public transportation in the 1950s, and established the nation's first federally subsidized, church-operated rental housing project in the 1960s. Thereafter, he continued to support a variety of philanthropic causes and remained an influential public figure in Atlanta until his death in 1993.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

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  1. African American Churches
  2. African American Civic Leaders
  3. African American Civil Rights Workers
  4. African American Clergy
  5. African American Criminal Justice Personnel
  6. African American Neighborhoods
  7. African American Orators
  8. African American Police
  9. African American Political Activists
  10. African American Radio Broadcasters
  11. African Americans
  12. Apartments
  13. Arrest
  14. Atlanta
  15. Atlanta (Ga.)
  16. Atlanta Life Insurance Company
  17. Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.)
  18. Baptists
  19. Borders, William Holmes, 1905 1993. Seven Minutes At The Mike In The Deep South
  20. Boycotts
  21. Buses
  22. Child Care
  23. Church Property
  24. Church Work
  25. Church Work With African Americans
  26. Church Work With The Poor
  27. Churches
  28. Civic Leaders
  29. Civil Rights
  30. Civil Rights Workers
  31. Clergy
  32. Community Life
  33. Credit Unions
  34. Criminal Justice Personnel
  35. Day Care Centers
  36. Discrimination
  37. Discrimination In Housing
  38. Election
  39. Employment Agencies
  40. Equality
  41. Ethnic Neighborhoods
  42. Federal Aid To Housing
  43. Federal Aid To Nonprofit Organizations
  44. Finance
  45. Georgia
  46. Government
  47. History
  48. Housing
  49. Housing Authorities
  50. Housing Management
  51. Housing Subsidies
  52. Inner Cities
  53. Jet, Banks, And Russell
  54. Job Vacancies
  55. Love, Law, And Liberation Movement (Atlanta, Ga.)
  56. Low Income Housing
  57. Mass Media In Religion
  58. Mayors
  59. Neighborhood
  60. Nonprofit Organizations
  61. Officials And Employees
  62. Old Age Homes
  63. Orators
  64. Ordinances, Municipal
  65. Police
  66. Political Activists
  67. Politics And Government
  68. Politics, Practical
  69. Poor
  70. Poor African Americans
  71. Primaries
  72. Race Discrimination
  73. Race Relations
  74. Radio Broadcasters
  75. Radio Broadcasting
  76. Radio In Religion
  77. Radio Personalities
  78. Radio Programs
  79. Religion
  80. Religious Aspects
  81. Rental Housing
  82. Saving And Investment
  83. Segregation
  84. Segregation In Transportation
  85. Social Conditions
  86. Social Justice
  87. Streets
  88. Student Movements
  89. Subsidies
  90. Theology, Practical
  91. Transportation
  92. Unemployed
  93. Urban Renewal
  94. Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
  95. Wheat Street Baptist Church Credit Union (Atlanta, Ga.)
  96. Wheat Street Towers (Atlanta, Ga.)

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