The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in...
The grandson of a slave, Albert Cecil Williams was born Sept. 22, 1929, and raised in the segregated West Texas town of San Angelo. He was one of six children. After moving to San Francisco, Williams helped revive Glide in the early 1960s with late wife Janice Mirikitani, who died in 2021. Although he retired as the...