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Image of a head-and-shoulders photograph of the Reverend William Holmes Borders, who served as pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1937 to 1988. In the late 1950s he led the Love, Law, and Liberation Movement to desegregate the city's bus system, and in the 1960s he arranged for the construction of a low-income housing project, Wheat Street Gardens.
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  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African American Political Activists
  5. African Americans
  6. Atlanta
  7. Baptists
  8. Borders, William Holmes, 1905
  9. Civic Leaders
  10. Civil Rights
  11. Civil Rights Workers
  12. Clergy
  13. Georgia
  14. Political Activists
  15. Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)

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