Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 2000 — Page 2
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recalled his children crying in a Savannah drug store when he told
Continued from A1 ^^ could 1101 i oin white , , , , , children spinning on soda counter molecules out of the air and make s tools because of segregation, me a weapon and just wipe out j|, e marches and sit-ins he led every white person near, because I j n Savannah caught the attention thought they had shot Dr. King at 0 f Kj n g and others in the Southern * une * Christian Leadership Conference, “I said to myself, ‘ Amenca, rac- and in 1963 they asked Williams to ists, economic exploiters, you sure j 0 j n them in mobilizing the civil have messed up now ... because rights movement across the South, there lies the only one among us, “j ( a s field director, would go the main one, who has tried to keep ahead of the others and mobilize us calm. Now you’ve killed him.” die street people in the Black comWilliams was bom Jan. 5,1926, munities,” he recalled. “Jesse Jackin Attapulgus, Ga., the illegitimate would come in later and deal son of a blind girl who fled a state w jth the middle-class Blacks and training school when she discov- Andy Young would negotiate with ered she was pregnant. He was (he white power structure.” raised by his grandparents. After the furor of the ’60s, WilHe was badly wounded in Eu- hams’ graying, goateed chin and rope during World War II and raS py voice were well-known at walked with a cane the rest of his c j v ji rights meetings and protests, life. When he returned to Georgia, jailed more than 125 times, he ofhe was beaten bloody while trying ten waved off incarceration as “just to use a whites-only drinking foun- another attempt to silence Hosea tain - . Williams.” During the weeks he spent in a Williams later entered politics, military hospital, he remembered serving ^ a s tate representative, thinking that I d fought on the Atlanta city councilman and county wrong side. commissioner. Williams earned a master’s de- President Clinton called Willgree at Atlanta University and jams “an American foot soldier for taught agricultural chemistry. He freedom.”
4% I Williams walked with CUmm across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., earlier this year to mark the, 35th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when white troopers and sheriff s deputies used tear gas, nightsticks and whips lb break up a civil rights march. .. / “From his bravery in the fields of battle in World War II, to Kjii leadership in the civil rij*h't$ straggle at home, Hosea Williamk was a profile in courage,” ClintAfi said. Rep. John Lewis, who waS beaten badly during the 1965Setrna march, said Williams “was a itiah of faith, hope and great courted. He had the capacity to distort) things, speak out, mobilize, agitate for what is right and what was fair.” Williams cooked his first Thanksgiving dinner for the prior in 1970, feeding 200 people iff kn Atlanta church. Last year’s dinner at Turner Field, which Willimty was too ill to attend, was served by Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes and 3,000 other volunteers. _; Williams is survived by two sons and four daughters. His wife, Juanita, died in August. ; ^ . X
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borhood who could have garnered the award. He added that he was honored and humbled by the rec-
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Williams dictates his writings in 15-minute phone calls to Becnel. His first book was published in 19% and he has published seven
since.
His latest book is Life in Prison, a gritty first-person book targeted
ent players making a difference, said Williams, who has been working in the community for nearly a decade. “Anytime people you work with submit you for an award like this it’s gratifying. I’ve been blessed and just want to improve the quality of living for everyone in the neighborhood, including myself. When we get involved we control
our own destiny.
“Everyone can see more pride in the neighborhood,” he added. The FBI award isn’t the first time Williams has been recognized nationally or locally. He paid he and other residents will continue towards a safe, clean and economically sound neighborhood. Furthermore, Williams said that his most rewarding experience will only come when Haughville seniors can sit on their porches and watch their grandchildren play and enjoy the peace and serenity of
their neighborhood.
“I ’ 11 appreciate that even more,”
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He’s a great man. We are hap to nominate him,” Mohamud said Winnie Madikizela-Mandela visited Williams last year and called the two hours she spent with thp death row inmate the “highlight”
leases the names of peace prize nominees, only the number — a record 150 this year. Howe.v^r, those nominating others for the award often divulge their choices in advance. ! Members of national assemblies and governments, and members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union arfe among those persons entitled tri nominate candidates. The 2061 Nobel Peace Prize will be awaitieg
on Dec. 10,2001.
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• “I have been locked up nearly 20 years, and every day of my incarceration I have been homesick. ... My homesickness even makes me feel sick to my stom-
ach.”
• “It’s very humiliating to have guards watching us closely to make sure none of us is breaking the rules by touching, or being touched, too much.” Williams also created the Internet Project for Street Peace, which links at-risk Califomia and
South African youths .ogother
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at the Marion County Health De- virus is reproduced in egg embryos, hospital's vaccine (75 percent) may partment (MCHD) for the past 20 The vaccine’s primary goal is to never reach patients who could years. “After Dec. 15, hopefully prevent at-risk individuals from become affected, we 11 have enough of the vaccine progressing into more severe dis- Grocery and drug stores have left to offer it to the general public gj^es once they get influenza. been offering flu shots to the pub(non high-risk). Another shipment complication lie at reasonable costs, but the yacPeden ordered the MCHD s vac- involved two out of four manufac- cine shortage has caused such lo-. cine in April, and admits that ship- turers, who had quality assurance cations to limit their supplies. Af < ments typically arrive by mid-Sep- factors in theirfacilities where pro- ter complaints from some consumtember. Nearly eight months later, d uc ti on was postponed. Each com- ers. Marsh Supermarkets recently she obtained the first supply, and pany has seven months to repro- canceled its flu shots, partial shipments will continue to duce the vaccine. “Many people wanted to know amve until Christmas. jj m Eskew, head of Clarian why the grocery stores have (Ihe She said that manufacturers ini- Health’s pharmacy department, ad- flu vaccine) and not hospitals,” said tially filled orders according to mils that 85 percent of the vaccine Shawn Richards, influenza service when the requests where placed. SU ppiy has been administered to coordinator with the Indiana Statfe Now, Peden suggests that physi- staff members and at-risk patients. Department of Health. The stofes cians and health care facilities that An additional 3,000 doses should made 1,600doses of vaccine avirfprimarily serve high-risk patients arrive by Dec. 10. Clarian Health able to hospitals and health agenshould receive shipments first. covers Methodist, Riley and Indi- cies, and will resume their noniull The vaccine contains three dif- anfl iiniv^iiv Hospitals. schedule Dec. 1. V ' J
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