This photo of Rev. Williams and son staging a sit-in ran in the Evening Star on March 3, 1952.

ID: 3768 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Bishop Smallwood Williams, Civil Rights Agitator

This photo of Rev. Williams and son staging a sit-in ran in the Evening Star on March 3, 1952.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Bishop Smallwood Williams, Civil Rights Agitator

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Bishop Smallwood Williams, Civil Rights Agitator

By the time Bishop Williams (1907-1991) called for the resignation of the members of the Board of Education, he was already a well-known preacher and prominent civil rights activist. Williams began his career in DC as a street preacher at the corner…