The Nation - News from Jan. 15, 1988
Civil rights activists will mark the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend by marching through Georgia’s all-white Forsyth County, scene of a violent 1987 confrontation between black demonstrators and the Ku Klux Klan. Atlanta City Councilman Hosea Williams said the county can change its image as “the bastion of racism in America” by allowing his “brotherhood marchers” peaceful passage Saturday. Williams and 75 followers, including the original sponsor of last year’s march, will retrace the path that led them into a bloody confrontation with white supremacists on Jan. 17, 1987.
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