In the late 1980s Williams began to be debilitated by the progressive effects of ALS ("Lou Gehrig's disease") and began to require the services of a chauffeur/attendant.
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He was a 1940 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an historically black university located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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