Julius Hobson

Background Information A native of Birmingham , Alabama , US on May 29 , 1922 He served in the army during world war 2 An activist and politician who served on the board of education He was married and had four sons He graduated from economics at Howard University He was diagnosed with a form of cancer of the spine called multiple myeloma He later learned he also had acute leukemia and died from that at George Washington University hospital on March 23 , 1977

Civil Rights Activist While he was walking his son to school he passed all-white schools and that drove him to fight for desegregation in schools. He served as a chair of the Washington chapter of the congress Congress and of Racial Equality then joined a local civic association, where he marched the streets of Downtown, Washington, D.C., with signs encouraging shoppers to boycott stores that would not hire black employees. He also threatened to boycott the the city bus because they did hire black drivers and the bus system backed down and hired 44 black employees.

Rat Incident . In Southeast they had a rat infestation and the government officials were not doing anything about it Julius Hobson got fed up and gathered possum-sized rats and put them in cages then threatened to release them in georgetown if they did not do something about it

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