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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend Vernon Dobson
Reverend Vernon Dobson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Dobson, Vernon, 1923-2013, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2003 November 15.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 March 6.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist and minister Reverend Vernon Nathaniel Dobson was born in 1923, in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School he joined the U.S. Navy in 1940. In 1946, Dobson attended Howard University where he came under the tutelage of Dr. Mordecai Johnson and Dr. Howard Thurman. Dobson received his B.D. degree in 1949, and joined the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance in 1953, where he was twice named president. In 1963, Dobson became pastor of Union Baptist Church, and was an organizer for the March on Washington and founded the Food Bank of Maryland. He, fought racism as part of the "Goon Squad" with Parren Mitchell, Joseph Howard and others in 1967. With Monsignor Clare and Reverend Wendell Phillips, Dobson founded Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development in 1968. Dobson was pivotal to Union Baptist's 150-year-old legacy of social change and the founding of the NAACP. He passed away on January 26, 2013 at age 90.
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