John Wesley Dobbs (March 26, 1882 - August 30, 1961), an African American civic and political leader, was often referred to as unofficial 'mayor' of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dobbs, educated at Atlanta Baptist College (which later became Morehouse College), passed a civil service exam and became a railway mail clerk for the Post Office in 1903, a position he held for 32 years. Dobbs married Irene Ophelia Thompson in 1906, and they had six daughters, all of whom graduated from Spelman College and one of whom, Mattiwilda Dobbs, became a notable opera singer. Dobbs became a member of the Prince Hall Masons in 1911. In 1932, he was elected Grand Master of the Prince Hall Masons (a post he held for the rest of his life).
Believing that enfranchisement was the key to overcoming segregation, Dobbs started a voter registration drive in 1936 with a goal of registering 10,000 voters. That year, Dobbs founded the Atlanta Civic and Political League, and in 1946 along with A. T. Walden, he co-founded the Atlanta Negro Voters League. During the 1930s and '40s, laws keeping blacks from voting were found to be unconstitutional. Between 1936 and 1946, 20,000 African Americans voters were registered in Atlanta. With the power of the black vote behind him, Dobbs convinced Atlanta mayor William B. Hartsfield to integrate Atlanta's police force in 1948 and install gas lights along Auburn Avenue in 1949.
John Wesley ( /ˈwɛzlɪ/; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield. In contrast to George Whitefield's Calvinism, Wesley embraced the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England. Methodism in both forms was a highly successful evangelical movement in the United Kingdom, which encouraged people to experience Jesus Christ personally.
Wesley's teachings, known as Wesleyanism, provided the seeds for both the modern Methodist movement, the Holiness movement, Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Movement, and Neo-charismatic churches, which encompass numerous denominations across the world. In addition, he refined Arminianism with a strong evangelical emphasis on the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith.
Wesley helped to organize and form societies of Christians throughout England, Scotland, Wales, North America and Ireland as small groups that developed intensive, personal accountability, discipleship and religious instruction among members. His great contribution was to appoint itinerant, unordained preachers who travelled widely to evangelise and care for people in the societies. Young men who acted as their assistants, known as "exhorters", emulated the twelve apostles after the ascension of Jesus.[citation needed]
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480 John Wesley Dobbs Ave Unit 321, Atlanta GA 30542
Townhouse/Condo For Sale - 480 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE
480 John Wesley Dobbs AVE NE, # 319, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs AVE NE, # 319, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs AVE NE, # 321, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs AVE NE, # 415, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs Ave Ne, # 709, Atlanta, GA 30312
Residential for sale - 480 JOHN WESLEY DOBBS Avenue NE 709, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs Ave, # 713, Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE 308 Atlanta, GA 30312
480 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE #615, Atlanta, GA Presented by The Hunter Group.
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Come on down pour yourself another pint of courage
While I sit around and wait for you to find your claws
I would never be the one to have discouraged
Such a fine attempt at the art of climbing walls
Who would ever thought I'd be the one to finally lose
you
I never made you out to be an easy mark
A simple re-defining of the meaning of lucid
A simple matter of the slow extinction of my spark
One look, one blow
One heart, run low
one more...well placed hole...
You're a woman of the kind likes to cut men slowly
So I never really felt it till you cut my soul
Now I'm like a gun that's been cocked and loaded
Contemplating the logistics of a well placed hole
One look, one blow
One heart, run low
one more...well placed hole...
Did you really ever thing that I would finally do it
Did you really think you meant so much
I'd lose control
I've got a little hint for you my star-crossed lover
Come back around here if you're looking for a well
placed hole...
I'm a bit unavailable
You seem a bit gone
Rumours of right and wrong, assailable
Delivered from tongues of those… un-tamable
Yet loosed
Upon we
See you hurt
See you leave
Then you shiver
I watched you Shiver oh
Then you Shiver till...
I can not breathe any more
No I can not be here alone
You shiver
I watched you Shiver oh You Shiver till… I
No shield, entirely covered us
Faith, seems to crumble into dust
Leaving us just ourselves to despair of
Feeling the sting of the poison arrows
So loosed
Upon we
See you hurt
See you leave...
Then you shiver
I watched you Shiver oh
Then you Shiver till...
I can not breathe any more
No I can not be here alone
No I can not dream anymore
No I can not see anymore...
I don't mind if you pry, it's just me
It's the one thing I protect so well
this is my story
I don't care where you go or who you tell
cause it's my life and my lines
and have no fear we're not forgotten here
One step to the light to see
one foot on the edge that's me
one long trail into the night
all over this battle field
Sometimes you crawl
sometimes you kneel
one long trail into the night
one long trail into the night
What you sell
is not who you are
it's what you do
Who I am
I protect so well
keep away from you
I don't care whre you go
or who you tell
because into the night we go on and on
this is my story
oh this is my story
One step to the light to see
one foot on the edge, that's me
one long trail into the night
I wish I could feel just a little of nothing
instead of losing my mind
Like some bad dream relentlessly coming
It won't let me sleep at night
I can't believe what you've taken from me
or more like you've taken from us
any held hope of us being together
any last remnant of trust
You can take away so many things
the money, the tv, or the car
but you can not take away my memories
these I will always carry with me
you cannot take away these memories
I remember laughin till four in the morning
then of lovin till dawn
the way the sun lit your crystal blie eyes
in mine you could never do wrong
watching you sleep and hearing you breathe
just laying there holding you tight
drinking with Billy while your sister was sleeping
making love after a fight
These are the moments I'm gonna be keeping
these are the treasures important to me
you can have the car and the tv
these things mean nothing to me
No matter how far you can run
no matter how far you go
I'll always carry you right here inside me
right here inside me
right here inside me
I got something to say
I've been looking your way
I get the feeling I could use anything, lose everything
Just to make you stay
Never knowin' I could feel
You come and break my seal
Don't ya know that I could lose everything, use
anything
Just to make you real
Got you all in my mind
Got you under my skin
Don't ya know that I would use everything, prove
anything
Just to let you in
Now I'm startin' to sweat
I'm shakin' inside
I'm willing to break anything, take anything
Just to watch you ride
You are my wrench
You've got my pride
You got all the tools to break me loose inside
You are my wrench
You got my soul
You got all the tools to make me lose control
Wrench...
I've never fallen so hard
I've never sunk so low
Never knew this could break a part of me, be the start
of me
Come and make it so
We got nothing to lose
I got nothing to hide
Got a feelin' you're just the woman to dig a tunnel
through
Open me inside
I was a child,
life in your arms you hold me
the fire in your eyes stopped the bleeding
the love in your heart kept me breathing
I feel I'm dying again.
I've got nothing but hatred for my lover and friend
the lion in your eyes watches me screaming
the cold in your heart keeps my blood freezing
Thirteen days, before you left me here staring
thirteen days, before you tried to stop caring
Stare into the dark
the emptiness of hell comes to enfold me
take a long look at your sweet creation
did you get a thrill to watch my heart breaking
Thirteen days, before you left me here standing alone
thirteen days, before you left me to die on a phone
I cannot pretend, can't find an end
oh, how I miss you
I was your lover and you were my friend
I pray to God I never see you again
Thirteen days, before you left me here waiting to hold
you
Thirteen days, before you forgot what I told you
Thirteen days, that you gave to me only to take from me
Thirteen days, before you left me here breaking
We don't look at things the same way
some days you don't look at me at all
think we could weather this storm
together won't be so hard if we fall
So come to me with your hands open
trust in me I will be your chance
there's always time enough for bleeding
there never seems to be time enough to dance
no time to dance would you give me,
my love a time to dance
This old world is weighin down on you
your eyes barely leave the floor
rest your head upon my shoulder
there's a meanness going on out there
and you don't need anymore
The fog sets in and covers the sky
the brightness of the stars will disappear
with no means to reason why
I felt your presence as if you were here
I cover you with all that I am
I still can't see the sky
I still can't see the sky
Watch you fly away Little Blue Angel
watch you race in the wind
why do you fly from me Little Blue Angel
this is not a dream, this is...
The death of a friend
this is the death of a friend
yes you were my friend
I will miss you my friend
Can you see the sadness in my smily eyes?
Can you feel the emptiness behind my words?
Don't you know the love is dead or still alive?
The things you hear me say
About you want to hear
Don't you know what I am living in a part of
The same world
Making different close together on the same bed
Can you understand of very something strange?
To leave alone like someone else
Just to make you
Behind the mask
People walk today
Like a shield against to insanity
See our selfishness is getting hard
To leave it
Behind the mask
But I can take you away
I'm not strong enough to fly
See our loveliness pretend so hard
To leave it
Then you hide behind the strong of all your dreams
All you're falling when you show youself control
Today is real and you can see the others too
Now it's your time to wear your mask
And grow all mistakes
We sit alone together
and the space begins to breathe
distance seems to come alive
why this emptiness between you and me
Where is your compassionate smile
come here take hold of me
I'll stroke your hair for a little while
just rest your eyes, it'll be all right you see
just rest your eyes, it'll be all right you see
We sit alone, together
your Crystal Blues have turned to ice
your heart is colder then November
what is it that I've failed to recognize
I could make all of this better
just don't close your eyes
I could make all of this better
just don't close your eyes
I could make all of this better
please don't close your eyes