Refusal of service led Williams to civic service [SanDiegoUnionTribune.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/15/154:00 AM

As he ordered a salmon salad for lunch at a downtown hotel on Thursday, Leon Williams looked out the window and reflected how much San Diego had changed since he arrived here in 1941.

Almost all the buildings in view along Broadway were built following redevelopment efforts he championed. Neighborhoods have become more inclusive.

Tensions with law enforcement decreased and public transportation services increased during his almost four decades of service on the San Diego City Council, County Board of Supervisors and the Metropolitan Transit System’s board of directors, before he retired in 2006.

And in another significant change, a black man can order a meal and get a room in a downtown hotel. That’s not the San Diego Williams encountered when he stepped off a bus in 1941.

[For more of this story, written by Gary Warth, go to http://www.sandiegouniontribun...rvice-leon-williams/]

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