
REV. JOSEPH E. BOONE: REMEMBERING THE PICKETING PREACHER
Atlanta enjoys a celebrated role in the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, which connects that rich legacy with more contemporary struggles for justice and equality. That’s why it is reverently called the “Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement.” It’s where civil rights icons such as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Congressman John Lewis, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Ralph David Abernathy and Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, among others, have lived and launched their civil rights activism t