John Wesley Dobbs information

John Wesley Dobbs (March 26, 1882 – August 30, 1961) was an African-American civic and political leader in Atlanta, Georgia. He was often referred to...

Atlanta's prominent Dobbs family. John Wesley Dobbs was her father. She had five sisters including opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs and activist and civic...

organization was formed in 1949 by Democrat A. T. Walden, and Republican John Wesley Dobbs. The organization was created after the lynching of Robert Mallard...

Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world," one of the...

lead role at the San Francisco Opera. Dobbs was born in Atlanta, Georgia, one of six daughters of John and Irene Dobbs, who were leaders in the state's African-American...

Deep South for a month with prominent black Atlanta political leader John Wesley Dobbs, a guide and host provided by the NAACP. Sprigle wrote a 21-part nationally...

political activism. His maternal grandfather was civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs, who worked to successfully overturn the white primary in Georgia...

Street - (for Fulton County's first elected legislator) John Wesley Dobbs Avenue (for John Wesley Dobbs, African American civic and political leader, "mayor...

in the world", a phrase originally coined by civil-rights leader John Wesley Dobbs. Sweet Auburn and Atlanta's elite black colleges formed the nexus...

fire was still being stopped on the east by Boulevard (just sparing John Wesley Dobbs' block). When the fire reached Highland, it raced both east and west...

occupying a city block bounded by Ellis Street, Piedmont Avenue, John Wesley Dobbs Avenue and Jesse Hill Jr. Drive. A GSU economics professor estimated...

and APEX Museum are in the Sweet Auburn area just east of Downtown: John Wesley Dobbs called "Sweet" Auburn Avenue "the richest Negro street in the world"...

4 Atlanta MARTA stations". Atlanta News First. Retrieved April 11, 2024. John Ruch (July 5, 2014). "Clayton approves MARTA contract for November ballot"...

in Atlanta, Georgia, pays tribute to Georgia civil-rights leader John Wesley Dobbs". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 10, 2020. "Trilon, (sculpture)"...

and accompanied by John Wesley Dobbs, a prominent 66-year-old political leader and early civil rights activist from Atlanta. Dobbs, who was known and...

founded in 1885 at the intersection of Boulevard and Houston St. (now John Wesley Dobbs Ave.) and in 1922 expanded, acquiring the land at the southeast corner...

business, social, and religious community and famously called by John Wesley Dobbs the "richest Negro street in the world". On February 4, 1934, Scott...

1943 winner of Best Supporting Actor award for The More The Merrier John Wesley Dobbs, 78, African American civic and political leader Robert Edward Cruickshank...

Carl Dobbs (born September 24, 1945) is an American conservative political commentator, author and former television host who presented Lou Dobbs Tonight...

which, First Congregational, at the corner of Courtland Street and John Wesley Dobbs Ave. downtown, is noted as the favored church of the city's black...

Magazine. 14 November 2013. Bill Nunn at IMDb www.olatunjimusic.com Johnson, John H., ed. (March 21, 1974). "This week in black history". Jet. 45 (26). Chicago...