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Photograph of Hosea Williams folding t-shirts in 1996 for his Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless program. He stands in a room with stacks of boxes behind him. The t-shirt he folds reads "I helped Hosea feed the hungry." The program, founded by Williams in Atlanta, Georgia in 1971, provides food, health care, and clothing to thousands in the Atlanta area each year.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 Men
  4. African Americans
  5. Atlanta
  6. Charities
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Clergy
  10. Georgia
  11. Men
  12. Poor
  13. Services For
  14. T Shirts
  15. Volunteers
  16. Williams, Hosea, 1926 2000

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