San Diego Officials Share Sorrow Over Loss of Pioneer Leon Williams, Dead at 102
Community leaders took to social media to mourn the death of Leon Williams, a life-long civic leader and mentor with a career full of firsts.
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Leon Williams, San Diego's trailblazing Black leader, dies at 102
Leon Williams, San Diego's first Black council member and first Black county supervisor, died Saturday of cardiac arrest. He was 102. Flashback: Williams shaped public life in San Diego during a ...
Leon Williams, who shaped San Diego and paved way for Black leaders, dies at 102
When then-high school senior William Jones had the chance to interview for an internship with San Diego City Councilmember Leon Williams in 1972, he wasn’t immediately sold on the idea. He’d already ...