- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 32 min., 9 sec.)) : sound, color.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Vernon Dobson
- Reverend Vernon Dobson
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 1003150219
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Vernon Dobson.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
043209
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2003 November 15.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 March 6.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Pastor.
- Added Author
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.