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Creator:Hatfield, Edward A.
Title:William Holmes Borders
Date:2007 Dec. 14
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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.

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Subjects:Borders, William Holmes, 1905- | Borders, William Holmes, 1905- . Seven minutes at the mike in the Deep South | Hartsfield, William Berry | African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta | Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta | African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta | Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta | African American political activists--Georgia--Atlanta | Political activists--Georgia--Atlanta | African American civic leaders--Georgia--Atlanta | Civic leaders--Georgia--Atlanta | Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century | Atlanta (Ga.)--History--20th century | Atlanta (Ga.)--Social conditions--20th century | Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Race relations | Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Politics and government | African Americans--Social conditions--20th century | Community life--Georgia--Atlanta | Poor--Georgia--Atlanta | Poor African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta | Social justice--Georgia--Atlanta | Social justice--Religious aspects--Baptists | Equality--Georgia--Atlanta | African American police--Georgia--Atlanta | Police--Georgia--Atlanta | African American criminal justice personnel--Georgia--Atlanta | Criminal justice personnel--Georgia--Atlanta | Atlanta (Ga.)--Officials and employees | Transportation--Georgia--Atlanta | Segregation in transportation--Georgia--Atlanta | Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta | Discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta | Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta | Buses--Georgia--Atlanta | Boycotts--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Transportation--Georgia--Atlanta | Housing--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Housing--Georgia--Atlanta | Low-income housing--Georgia--Atlanta | Housing authorities--Georgia--Atlanta | Discrimination in housing--Georgia--Atlanta | Housing management--Georgia--Atlanta | Housing subsidies--Georgia--Atlanta | Apartments--Georgia--Atlanta | Rental housing--Georgia--Atlanta | Rental housing--Finance | Church property--Georgia--Atlanta | Church work--Georgia--Atlanta | Church work--Baptists | Church work with African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta | Church work with the poor--Georgia--Atlanta | African American churches--Georgia--Atlanta | Churches--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Religion | Streets--Georgia--Atlanta | Neighborhood--Georgia--Atlanta | African American neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta | Ethnic neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta | Inner cities--Georgia--Atlanta | African American orators--Georgia--Atlanta | Orators--Georgia--Atlanta | African American radio broadcasters--Georgia--Atlanta | Radio broadcasters--Georgia--Atlanta | Radio personalities--Georgia--Atlanta | Radio programs--Georgia--Atlanta | Radio in religion--Georgia--Atlanta | Mass media in religion--Georgia--Atlanta | Radio broadcasting--Religious aspects | Primaries--Georgia | African Americans--Politics and government | Mayors--Georgia--Atlanta | Mayors--Election | Arrest--Georgia--Atlanta | African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta | Saving and investment--Georgia--Atlanta | Credit unions--Georgia--Atlanta | Employment agencies--Georgia--Atlanta | Job vacancies--Georgia--Atlanta | Unemployed--Georgia--Atlanta | Day care centers--Georgia--Atlanta | Child care--Georgia--Atlanta | Urban renewal--Georgia--Atlanta | Atlanta Life Insurance Company | Nonprofit organizations--Georgia--Atlanta | Federal aid to nonprofit organizations--Georgia--Atlanta | Federal aid to housing--Georgia--Atlanta | Subsidies--Georgia--Atlanta | Old age homes--Georgia--Atlanta | Student movements--Georgia--Atlanta | Wheat Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) | Theology, Practical--Georgia--Atlanta | Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, Ga.) | Politics, Practical--Georgia--Atlanta | Love, Law, and Liberation Movement (Atlanta, Ga.) | Ordinances, Municipal--Georgia--Atlanta | Wheat Street Baptist Church Credit Union (Atlanta, Ga.) | Jet, Banks, and Russell | Wheat Street Towers (Atlanta, Ga.) | Atlanta (Ga.) | Fulton County (Ga.)
Collection:New Georgia Encyclopedia
Institution:New Georgia Encyclopedia
Contributors:New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) | Georgia Humanities Council | University of Georgia. Press | Merrill-Hall New Media | GALILEO (Georgia statewide project)
Online Publisher:12/14/2007
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