William Holmes Borders Sr. (24 February 1905 – 23 November 1993)[1] was an American civil rights activist and leader and pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1937 to 1988.

College president John Hope allowed him to graduate anyway as long as he pay in the future.

He formed the Wheat Street Credit Union to provide low-interest loans to blacks.

[3] Borders' influence in the black community was the trigger for a local radio station to offer him a weekly program in 1940.

Listeners of both races tuned in to hear information about segregation, disfranchisement during World War II, and black migration to the north.