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American activist and politician (–)

Julius Wilson Hobson (May 29, &#;&#; March 23, ) was an activist and politician who served on the Council of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Board of Education.

Early life

Hobson was a native of Birmingham, Alabama.

He was the son of Irma (Gordon) and Julius Hobson.^[4][5] His mother was a schoolteacher and later a principal.^[4] His father died when he was a very young child.^[6] His mother remarried a man who had a dry-cleaning plant and a drugstore.^[6]

As a child, Hobson worked at a public library, where he could clean the floors, but he was not allowed to borrow books.^[6] He read a lot of books about abolitionist John Brown, who he said was the greatest and most under-appreciated American in history.^[4] He graduated from Industrial High School, the only public high school in Birmingham that allowed black children to attend.^{& Julius Hobson - Military Wiki | Fandom REJA}