Williams was among the handful of Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizers accompanying King when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis. Today's activists have much to learn from his life. "Among everything else, Hosea Williams was an organizer and an agitator. "A great warrior has fallen," said Julian Bond, chairman of the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was being treated for an infection at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital. Williams, whom King referred to as "my wild man, my Castro," was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had a kidney removed last year. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most influential field representatives, died of cancer yesterday. Hosea Williams, the straight-talking, uncompromising civil-rights leader who led 1965's pivotal "Bloody Sunday" march and was one of the Rev.
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