Julius Hobson is arrested at 7th and Massachusetts Avenue NW during a bus fare protest, July 1970

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Julius Hobson is arrested at 7th and Massachusetts Avenue NW during a bus fare protest, July 1970
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Julius Hobson, Iconoclast

Julius Hobson, quoted above, was famous for creating friction. An Alabama native who came to DC to pursue a masters in economics at Howard University, Hobson became an activist in the early 1950s when his son was required to attend an underfunded…